This reminded me of NASA's Technology Readiness Levels. Bicycles are a good example: it took more than 70 years of steady iteration before the design settled into something we'd recognize today. Looking back, it feels obvious. Living through it probably didn't.
This reminded me of NASA's Technology Readiness Levels. Bicycles are a good example: it took more than 70 years of steady iteration before the design settled into something we'd recognize today. Looking back, it feels obvious. Living through it probably didn't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_bicycle
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/space-communcations-n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level