By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026In the centuries that followed, many other people had the insight that twirling blades of that shape on a screw of some type could provide lift for some kind of heavier-than-air craft. 21/ 1381
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026But it wasn't until alloys, internal combustion and light, energy-dense hydrocarbon fuels came on the scene that the helicopter became possible, whereupon it was all but inevitable, with several people independently inventing the helicopter all at once: memex.craphound.com/2010/10/13/k... 22/memex.craphound.comKevin Kelly’s WHAT TECHNOLOGY WANTS: how technology changes us and vice-versa – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX 1591
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026In the same way, the computing industry's focus on parallel computing made life easier for people who burned to do something parallelizable. 23/ 1380
