Amber ✨ Workshop Development Coach @thehellocode.com · Jun 3 A fun thought experiment from The World in Fifty Years: "... it would be perfectly possible to design a bicycle for horses, adapted to that animal's four hooved gait – with the right transmission and wheels, it would triple or quadruple a horse's speed... comparable to the automobile, speed-wise."
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He goes on to push further. What about if horses could fly? Could we give them wings? Or genetically modify an albatross? Our ancestors imagined riders in the sky, on giant birds and flying horses, not cars. If we can create things *beyond* their imagination, why not what they *did* imagine?