"One of our favorite subjects here is world-changing inventions that the world just ignored. Almost everything you think of as a recent invention was in fact invented decades or even centuries earlier and promptly forgotten about.
Sometimes it's bad luck, or shady business dealings, or the fact that the world just plain isn't ready. But one way or another, the reason is almost always ridiculous in hindsight. For instance ..."
Electric cars! We could have already had electric cars! There are of course other things that this article talks about, but the electric cars thing is what I personally find the coolest. What about you guys?
Sometimes it's bad luck, or shady business dealings, or the fact that the world just plain isn't ready. But one way or another, the reason is almost always ridiculous in hindsight. For instance ..."
Electric cars! We could have already had electric cars! There are of course other things that this article talks about, but the electric cars thing is what I personally find the coolest. What about you guys?
