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Everyone’s claiming that! Every invention allows someone to do something that was previously impossible. Humans couldn’t travel faster than a horse can run until the car was invented. Humans couldn’t see microbes before the microscope was invented. People couldn’t drag more than 10x their body weight until the wheel was invented. People couldn’t catch a marlin until the net was invented.

I am trying to resist the notion that youre being willfully obtuse if you aren’t equating invention with increasing what is possible.

Everyone’s claiming that! Every invention allows someone to do something that was previously impossible. Humans couldn’t travel faster than a horse can run until the car was invented. Humans couldn’t see microbes before the microscope was invented. People couldn’t drag more than 10x their body weight until the wheel was invented. People could catch a marlin until the net was invented.

I am trying to resist the notion that youre being willfully obtuse if you aren’t equating invention with increasing what is possible.

Everyone’s claiming that! Every invention allows someone to do something that was previously impossible. Humans couldn’t travel faster than a horse was run until the car was invented. Humans couldn’t see microbes before the microscope was invented. People couldn’t drag more than 10x their body weight until the wheel was invented. People could catch a marlin until the net was invented.

I am trying to resist the notion that youre being willfully obtuse if you aren’t equating invention with increasing what is possible.