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by limomium 2141 days ago
And a car is just a faster horse, but it sure changed society in fundamental ways. Often, incremental progress leads to unexpected critical mass, which opens new unimagined avenues for exploitation.
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> And a car is just a faster horse

No, it's a low maintenance, low latency horse. The start-up time of cars is a few orders of magnitude faster than horses. And they can be housed in very little space and basically ignored when not needed.