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Should America also have upgraded the mail system before telegraph lines were deployed? Should America have also made faster trains before building the intersta
by pitaj 10y ago
Should America also have upgraded the mail system before telegraph lines were deployed? Should America have also made faster trains before building the interstate system?
Innovation and disruption are better than just incremental improvements to make some existing technology fit your bill.
- babyrainbow 10y ago>Should America also have upgraded the mail system before telegraph lines were deployed? It is a bit different, you know. Investing in proven tech vs investing in vapourware..
- nihonde 10y agoAre you really arguing that 300km per hour trains that run on time and safely are equivalent to "telegraphs" while American passenger trains routinely fail to follow any schedule at all and have a bad habit of killing people? Not to mention that they don't serve large swaths of the country, including areas that need them most.