咖啡因成瘾如何改变历史 How Caffeine Addiction Changed History | WIRED

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早上需要咖啡提神来开启学习和打工的生活,已经成为了上班一族新型的生活模式。而我们现在每天接触的咖啡拥有这什么样的历史?为何能让我们元气满满呢?听畅销书作家迈克尔·波伦(Michael Pollan)谈谈咖啡对于我们的影响。

90% Of the world's adults consume some form of caffeine every day, making it the most widely used psychoactive drug on earth.

Michael Pollan, best-selling author of books on plant pharmacology explains why.

A very strong case can be made that caffeine contributed to the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason and the Industrial Revolution, all of which required us to think in much more focused, linear terms.

Caffeine was an amazing aid to the rise of capitalism.

Compared to other beverages, coffee is a relative newcomer, spreading slowly from Africa, through the Middle East and into the West only a few centuries ago.

Yet, it's hard to even imagine a world without it.

Before caffeine comes to Europe, people were drunk or buzzed most of the day.

People would have alcohol with breakfast.

Water was contaminated with disease, but alcohol, because of the fermentation process, would kill a lot of microbes.

So you gave your kids hard cider in the morning.

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