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Originally posted by thesneakiod
How come for hundreds of years, our only form of travel was horse and cart. Then
as soon as the car was invented, a technological onslaught happened. So much so
that in under 70 years we were able to go to the moon.
How did it happen so fast?
What was invented to help things along?
For me since we went to the moon, technology seems to have slowed down compered to
the rate it travelled from the car up to the space race.
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I think you'll find it was the steam engine that changed everything not the car. The reason it looks like we have slowed down now is because people arnt putting enough money into research and the things that are invented tend to be improvements of a similar technology.
Originally posted by thesneakiod
How come for hundreds of years, our only form of travel was horse and cart. Then
as soon as the car was invented, a technological onslaught happened.