Progress Studies

Governments sporadically got things spectacularly wrong. In 1865, the rail and horse-drawn carriage lobbies in the U.K. drummed up enough outrage to pass the Locomotive Act, whose most notable feature was an absurd requirement that a man walk in front of any self-propelled vehicle waving a red flag and blowing a horn. It stunted the U.K. automobile... See more

In 2010, people still thought the main application of mobile was coupons. @yishan set them straight.

Progress is challenging, not due to a lack of imagination but due to the lack of a blank canvas  Maybe Mars is the blank canvas we need to bring us all together