A nice quote from the brilliant physicist Freeman Dyson:
You can't possibly get a good technology going without an enormous number of failures. It's a universal rule. If you look at bicycles, there were thousands of weird models built and tried before they found the one that really worked. You could never design a bicycle theoretically. Even now, after we've been building them for 100 years, it's very difficult to understand just why a bicycle works – it's even difficult to formulate it as a mathematical problem. But just by trial and error, we found out how to do it, and the error was essential.This is also really interesting, a bicycle that steers in reverse and is only possible to control after a lot of practice:
2 comments:
Enjoyed the SmarterEveryDay video! Great and a bit freaky that he unlearned riding a normal bike. I would be a little bit scared if that happened to me.
yeah really great video. That clickmoment was freaky, like if was attached to one main switch.
The reverse bike is a great way to prefent it to be stolen.
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