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Old July 17th 19, 08:05 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Eric Pozharski
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https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle

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Old July 17th 19, 11:49 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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On Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 10:33:11 AM UTC+1, Eric Pozharski wrote:
https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle

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I skimmed the article. I'm impressed with the fellow's amount of work, especially the illustrations he found which are a short course in the early history of the bicycle. But his conclusion is a cop-out: everything else can be included in economic and cultural factors (and economics itself is a result of cultural factors), including one explanation that I didn't see in skipping through it, simply that the time was ripe and there was mass demand, coinciding with all the other required factors, a very common way for innovations small and large to happen, i.e. they are essentially inexplicable unless all interested parties agree on the weighting of all material and technological inputs & other human and cultural factors -- good luck with that one! Entrepreneurship and innovation has now been studied for over a quarter-millennium, and the conclusion of sensible, experienced people is that we should be cautious about drawing hard and fast conclusions (the elephant in the room is the unspoken addendum: lest we need to conclude it is an irrational process, which'll put us all out of work and, worse, the prestige of being explicators -- in California, gurus).

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Old July 17th 19, 01:42 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Ralph Barone[_4_]
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Eric Pozharski wrote:
https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle


“certainly inventors were copying an existing mode of transportation, but
why would they draw inspiration only from the horse-and-carriage, and not
from the horse-and-rider?”

The author appears to have neglected the fact that horses have four legs.
 




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