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Naive question - maybe someone has an interesting point of view. Wouldn't "imitate then innovate" just lead us to very efficient horse carriages instead of car
by bluepizza 5y ago
Naive question - maybe someone has an interesting point of view.
Wouldn't "imitate then innovate" just lead us to very efficient horse carriages instead of cars?
- jmmcd 5y agoI guess the author's response would be no, it would still give us cars, but they would have good wheels instead of square ones.
- moring 5y agoI don't think so, for two reasons. First, a lot of things one the way from a horse carriage to a car are actually the same, like wheels and seats. They diverge later on. Second, the article promotes innovating from other fields, not your own field. That might mean a carriage moved by a steam engine, for example, which also brings you closer to a car.
- _dain_ 5y ago>That might mean a carriage moved by a steam engine, for example, which also brings you closer to a car. they made those! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_car#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_car#History
- SuoDuanDao 5y agoI believe Archie of Riverdale's car was originally depicted as one of those!
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- mro_name 5y agothat's exactly what it started with and developed stepwise from then. Look at Gottlieb Daimler's motor-carriage of 1886: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb_Daimler#/media/Datei:Stuttgart-cannstatt-daimler-kutsche-1886.jpg https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb_Daimler#/media/Datei:...
- Cthulhu_ 5y ago> Wouldn't "imitate then innovate" just lead us to very efficient horse carriages instead of cars? But early cars WERE based on horse carriages; they literally did NOT reinvent the wheel, but instead strapped a combustion engine onto a horse carriage. Then did they start - or continue - innovation with things like suspension, tires, brakes, and later on safety systems etc.
- wmeredith 5y agoAbsolutely. Hell, some of them even had a fake horse out front.