The world said humans
were not meant to fly. Hundreds of years of human invention had been unable to
make it work. But in a small bicycle-repair shop, two brothers with no
government funding and only a basic education had a vision, and a will to
invent. And in 1903, thanks to the determination of these two unsuspecting
inventors, humans flew.
The distance of the
first human flight was 120 ft. Years later, one of the inventors of that
breakthrough would marvel that the wingspan of modern airplanes was longer than
the entire distance his first plane had flown. The potential of technology is
limited only by our imagination, and our will.
Abundance of water,
food, clean air. peace: the end of scarcity in the supply of our basic needs
is possible. Perhaps not by 2020, but it starts with the dream, the
determination to turn dreams into reality, and the understanding of this truth,
so well embodied in the invention and rapid evolution of human flight: that all
things are possible.
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