Sunday, January 18, 2026

Dallas -- The Sixth (Fourth) Industrial Revolution -- January 18, 2026

Locator: 49748. 

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Texas Economy 

One of the more fascinating stories: all the companies moving to Texas. Relocations tracked here.

This past week, another story, link here. A Kansas drone company establishes a manufacturing and consolidating operations in Texas, in a suburb of Dallas. 

Last year, link here:

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Fourth (Sixth?) Industrial Revolution

One of the best histories / summaries of the 19th century British industrial revolution is chapter 7 in Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues, Jonathan Kennedy, c. 2023. When you read about that industrial revolution, it sounds just like what is currently going on in the states. More on this later, perhaps. 

The world's plagues in Britain during the 19th century industrial revolution: tuberculosis and cholera. And, of the two, cholera is the much bigger (and more interesting) story.