Idea behind its time

# Bicycles
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Jason Crawford

The gun is mounted on an unstable platform

Where be Dragons?

Why didn’t new husbandry techniques occur until 1500?

 Where Be Dragons?

Why didn’t the romans create lateen sails?

Why was the breast wheel not invented until the industrial revolution?

Why weren’t buttons invented in Asia?

# Idea behind its time
Concept from [[Alex Tabbaroc]] via  [[Jason Crawford]] of things that could, technologically, have been invented long before they were

Some examples:
- [[Bicycles]]
- Dungeons and Dragons 
	- See [[Age of Invention: Where Be Dragons?]]



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Isegoria

Trusted hierarchies do not preclude bottom-up innovation

# The gun is mounted on an unstable platform
- Book review of [[Men, Machines and Modern TImes]]
- Case study of gunfire at sea
	- Rolling ship you could only fire when rolling of boat was correct and needed to eyeball when to do that 
	- Continuous aim firing by changing gear ratio so the targeter can quickly change gun 
	- Made telescope sight desireable - but then needed to have recoil free sight
	- Increased accuracy 3000% in six years
	- Sir Percy Scott noticed that one gunner was particularly accurate and 
		- Percy had mechanical ingenuity
		- Personal life was bitter and frustrating
		- Didn’t like inelastic authority
	- Pieces were in place for at least 40 years
	- Commanding officer of HMS TERRIBLE. YES.
	- Sims was an American officer who met Percy
	- First: Sims was ignored by the government
	- Second: made tone shocking
		- Government: continuous aim firing was impossible
	- Third: sims wrote to 
## Questions
## Thoughts
- Also relevant that Percy had the power to actually do the experiment
- How many interest-position mismatches are there?
- [[Continuous aim gun sights]] are Example of an  [[Idea behind its time]]
- Example of [[Quantum leaps need a champion who is willing to bend or break the rules to succeed]]
## Related
## Authors
[[Isegoria]]
## Link
https://www.isegoria.net/2020/01/the-gun-is-mounted-on-an-unstable-platform/

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Anton Howes

# Where be Dragons?
Why wasn’t D&D invented until the 1970s? [[Idea behind its time]]

### Published
## Questions
## Thoughts
## Related
## Authors
- [[Anton Howes]]
## Link
[Age of Invention: Where Be Dragons? - Age of Invention, by Anton Howes](https://antonhowes.substack.com/p/age-of-invention-where-be-dragons?r=2111d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter)



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Chicken and Egg Trivia

# Why didn’t new husbandry techniques occur until 1500?
It’s hard to believe that people didn’t realize that if two big cows had a baby that baby would grow up to be bigger. 

One possibility is that the scale of farming was so small that people couldn’t notice lineages. If you only ever interact with one or two cows it’s hard to notice their kid picking up their traits. And then it’s hard to see which chickens are breeding with other chickens.

Another possibility is that there was actually a cultural shift just about systematically documenting things in the world. This is suggested by [[Against the Gods]]. 

Another [[Idea behind its time]]
## Reference
[[Lever of Riches]]
            


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# Why didn’t the romans create lateen sails?
Seems like another [[Idea behind its time]]
[[Lever of Riches]]
           


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# Why was the breast wheel not invented until the industrial revolution?
Another [[Idea behind its time]]
### References
[[Lever of Riches]]
           


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# Why weren’t buttons invented in Asia?
- Seems like another [[Idea behind its time]]
[[Lever of Riches]]
           


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