Very interesting. And the passages about different Steamboat inventors failing to learn from each other as they iteratively moved through different designs defi

Very interesting. And the passages about different Steamboat inventors failing to learn from each other as they iteratively moved through different designs definitely made me think of the modern programmer, and about how just going ahead and coding is often valued over extensive research. I wonder if someday today's "first generation programmers" will be looked at in the same way as these early pioneers.