NanoBot blogger Howard Lovy takes an amusing look at what would’ve happened if the inventor of the wheel tried to get venture capital funding in caveman times.
Your project is too high-risk, with little promise of return on investment within five cycles of really hot and really, really cold time periods. Plus, what you’re proposing is not simply investment in a technology, but would require massive infrastructure changes that would alter transportation as we know it. A complex system of “paths” would need to be dug into the brush to accommodate the “wheels” and other related inventions you say they would enable (“carts,” “bicycles” and ? we were especially amused by this concept ? “Hummers.”)