47: A New Philosophy of Progress and Why We Don’t Have Flying Cars, with Jason Crawford
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The History of the Bicycle
i like to go into the specific history of the thing, right? So you can speculate about the bicycle. The very first bicycle din have pedals. It wasn't until decades later, i think, in the 18 sixties or so, that somebody actually put pedals on the bicycle. But when they did put pedals on, they attached them directly to the front wheel. And the challenge with that is you don't get a lot of leverage. So you can't gears, right, sicorn a fixe.
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