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Simple Honesty

"I never trust a bicycle I can't run into through." - Jay Leno


We alive inwards a basis of bewildering complication.  Everyday held inwards our hands are machines capable of amazing tasks, yet all but a really few would live at a loss to explicate how they truly work.  The same goes for the vast bulk of devices that brand our modern life so...comfortable.  Flick a switch as well as at that spot is bit entertainment, bit coffee, bit transportation, bit gratification.  And when these things cease the might to produce so, bit refuse.

I am nonetheless likewise immature to convey lived inwards a fourth dimension where people owned things for really long.  In the belatedly 1980s my grandmother had an International Harvester fridge from the '40s.  That heavy bastard had been lugged unopen to for to a greater extent than moves than you lot could count as well as worked perfectly afterwards most one-half a century. She couldn't empathise the demand to purchase a novel one.  I'm difficult pressed to mean value of anything I've owned for twenty...scratch that...ten years, permit lone forty.  It precisely doesn't happen.

So what does this convey to produce alongside motorcycles, as well as the quote at the locomote yesteryear of the page?  Frankly, everything.  As technology scientific discipline becomes increasingly complex, as well as disposable, as well as then likewise produce motorcycles, therefore non existence able to 'trust a bicycle you lot can't run into through'.  More than only a disputation regarding the plastic wrapping as well as then many of today's ii wheeled offerings are presented in, it refers to the obfuscation of the machine's soul, the engine, the inner workings, via computers, ride-by-wire, sensors, ABS, etc..  When a homo tin terminal "see" how a matter works, empathise the movings as well as meshings, he tin terminal know it, create it, experience what it is doing.  It becomes an extension of the body, a business office of the ane whose labors hold it rolling downward the road.  Sometimes the best response is the to the lowest degree complicated one.

I'm no Neo-Luddite, or fool to mean value that technology scientific discipline won't proceed it's march until fifty-fifty humanity becomes obsolete, but ane can't attention but wonder what it was similar to concord on to a thing.

Because it worked.

Simply.

Honestly.




   

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