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In the millions of years separating us from the first human like creatures, biological evolution led to Homo sapiens. Somewhere along the line, next to natural evolution by variation and selection, cultural evolution started to play a role. This led to the gradual introduction and improvement of more and more tools to enhance the two main activities of man, the physical intervention in nature and the gathering and processing of information. With the Industrial Revolution the development of both production and information technology accelerated. In the 20th century the development culminated in the Global Intelligent Machine.
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Koetsier, T. (2019). Introduction. In: The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96547-5_1
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