The next fifty things that made the modern economy

Introduction: the pencil -- part 1. Deceptively simple -- Bricks -- The factory -- The postage stamp -- Bicycles -- Spectacles -- Canned foods -- Auctions -- part 2. Selling the dream -- Tulips -- Queen's ware -- The Bonsack machine -- The sewing machine -- The mail-order catalogue -- Fast-food franchises -- Fundraising appeals -- Santa Claus -- part 3. Moving money -- SWIFT -- Credit cards -- Stock options -- The Vickrey turnstile -- The blockchain -- part 4. Invisible systems -- Interchangeable parts -- RFID -- The Interface Message Processor -- CPS -- part 5. Secrets and lies -- The movable-type printing press -- Menstrual pads -- CCTV -- Pornography -- Prohibition -- 'Like' -- part 6. Working together -- Cassava processing -- Pensions -- QWERTY -- The Langstroth hive -- Dams -- part 7. No Planet B -- Fire -- Oil -- Vulcanisation -- The Wardian case -- Cellophane -- Recycling -- Dwarf wheat -- Solar photovoltaics -- part 8. Our robot overlords -- The Hollerith Punch-card machine -- The gyroscope -- Spreadsheets -- The chatbot -- The CubeSat -- The slot machine -- Chess algorithms.