{"id":778,"date":"2026-08-13T08:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T08:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T08:17:06","slug":"why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Howes says that \u201cinnovation is not in human nature, but is instead received. \u2026 when people do not innovate, it is often simply because it never occurs to them to do so.\u201d Joel Mokyr says, similarly, that \u201cprogress isn\u2019t natural\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rootsofprogress.org\/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle\">blog.rootsofprogress.org\/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howes says that \u201cinnovation is not in human nature, but is instead received. \u2026 when people do not innovate, it is often simply because it never occurs to them to do so.\u201d Joel Mokyr says, similarly, that \u201cprogress isn\u2019t natural\u201d \u2014 Read on blog.rootsofprogress.org\/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,15,186,19,187],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-consciousness","tag-culture","tag-inventions","tag-knowledge","tag-progress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}