MIT Technology Review: What tech learned from Daedalus

Even 35 centuries ago, people imagined using technology to overcome physical limits.

Today’s climate-change kraken may have been unleashed by human activity—which has discharged greenhouse-gas emissions into Earth’s atmosphere for centuries—but reversing course and taming nature’s growing fury seems beyond human means, a quest only mythical heroes could fulfill. Yet the dream of human-powered flight—of rising over the Mediterranean fueled merely by the strength of mortal limbs—was also the stuff of myths for thousands of years. Until 1988...

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What tech learned from Daedalus

Many thanks to Allison Arieff, MIT Technology Review Editorial Director.