1903: Wright Brothers fly for the first time at Kitty Hawk, NC
1947: Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier w/ the Bell X-1
1969: Apollo Program lands a human on the moon

It took 66 years to go from flying a human for the first time to landing a human on the moon - that was about 53 years ago

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

Perhaps our expectation for technological progress is linear, and often more logarithmic?

Perhaps it wasn’t that we were the direct causes of it, and that we were trying harder back then, but more a series of ideas whose time had come

Perhaps if the US hadn’t done it, the Russians would have