History Professor Jonathan Rees joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about the Industrial Revolution. Why did coal miners take canaries into the mines? What caused The Great Smog in London (1952)? What are the most important inventions to come from the Industrial Revolution? Answers to these questions and many more await on Industrial Revolution Support.

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00:00 – Industrial Revolution Support
00:13 – Spinning yarn and saving time since 1764
01:01 – 1700s: Steam engines. 2026: Prompt engines.
02:16 – The miner’s choir
02:36 – Stow, pick, pack, repeat
03:59 – Productivity? High. Visibility? Zero.
04:44 – The Eric Williams argument
05:10 – Move it or lose it, punk
06:31 – Bring your child to work day
07:28 – All hail King Ludd
08:09 – The Henry Ford effect
08:49 – Bessemer’s world, we’re just living in it
09:53 – Rudder-to-rudder during rush hour
10:50 – “Any color you like, as long as it’s black.”
11:26 – Factories, fossil fuels and Fortune 500s
12:53 – The epicenter of the Industrial Revolution
13:31 – The mass production glow-up
14:14 – The weaver’s lament
16:27 – Crop it like it’s hot
17:33 – 4 eras, 1 seismic shift in civilization

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow tracks SpaceX’s value eclipsing Amazon’s, this as it lands its $60 billion takeover of Cursor. Plus, Anthropic meets with US officials to resolve a national security dispute with the Trump administration over its most advanced AI models. And, Sequoia Partner Shaun Maguire talks about the AI landscape and why he never wants to sell his SpaceX shares.

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Android 17 is out, and if you have a Google Pixel phone, you can try it right away. Android 17 comes with a bunch of new features, including a new green-screen selfie tool, a Pause Point tool and loads of video and photo improvements for Instagram.

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