The ability for technology and innovations to transform global economics
and geopolitics is often underestimated, even sidelined in
retrospect.However, from the
technological achievements that gave the British Empire mastery over the
seas, to the industrial revolution that eventually disrupted and
unraveled the empire’s carefully constructed global system of
mercantilism, the march of technological progress literally governors
the rise and fall of global centers of power and the empires built
around them.
