Tag: Progress

  • Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?

    Howes says that “innovation is not in human nature, but is instead received. … when people do not innovate, it is often simply because it never occurs to them to do so.” Joel Mokyr says, similarly, that “progress isn’t natural” — Read on blog.rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle