"Energy conversions are the very basis of life and evolution. **Modern history can be seen as an unusually rapid sequence of transitions to new energy sources, and the modern world is the cumulative result of their conversions**." ([Location 543](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08SGC3TD3&location=543)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[energy-conversion]], [[systems-thinking]], **Source** -- [[202412030828 - B - How the World Really Works]]