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Bring back the horse and carriage? Mule teams? We may have just stumbled upon the next big startup craze! Who needs scooters and self-driving cars when you can
by notadoc 8y ago
Bring back the horse and carriage? Mule teams? We may have just stumbled upon the next big startup craze!
Who needs scooters and self-driving cars when you can hop on a donkey that navigates slowly and entirely for you?
- agumonkey 8y agoI was too short above. I see FOMO as the need for instantaneous satisfaction (abstract notion). Fast transport, as an obvious technological advance in the past, to guarantee time and space, removes us from surprise, unknown. When going to a town not far away was an adventure in itself, today going across the globe is nearly yawn inducing.
- notadoc 8y ago> When going to a town not far away was an adventure in itself, today going across the globe is nearly yawn inducing. Indeed there was novelty to even somewhat local travel, now it's routine and ingrained. And flying across the world is done in a day. Perhaps why so many are looking up at space, it's the next great adventure.