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efficient flights made transpacific flights possible, enabled the entire industry of tourism, and everything that has to do with global business / science . Sur
by buboard 7y ago
efficient flights made transpacific flights possible, enabled the entire industry of tourism, and everything that has to do with global business / science . Sure, the cellphone was a major breakthrough as was the internet (and hopefully, remote work). the question is why not more.
And we should avoid the Kelvin trap, as we can rarely foresee a breakthrough before it happens
- nl 7y agoI'm not arguing that flights weren't important! But I'd note that international tourism really took off when it became cheap, which was an efficiency improvement and mostly occurred after 1971. And your point about international business made me realise he has ignored all the huge innovations in the payments and international remittance space.