{"id":155,"date":"2003-10-13T07:31:23","date_gmt":"2003-10-13T07:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=155"},"modified":"2003-10-13T07:31:23","modified_gmt":"2003-10-13T07:31:23","slug":"50000-years-bc-vcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/10\/50000-years-bc-vcs\/","title":{"rendered":"50,000 years BC VCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NanoBot blogger Howard Lovy <a href=\"http:\/\/nanobot.blogspot.com\/2003_10_12_nanobot_archive.html#106594399881328126\">takes an amusing look <\/a>at what would&#8217;ve happened if the inventor of the wheel tried to get venture capital funding in caveman times. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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&#8217;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 &#8220;paths&#8221; would need to be dug into the brush to accommodate the &#8220;wheels&#8221; and other related inventions you say they would enable (&#8220;carts,&#8221; &#8220;bicycles&#8221; and ? we were especially amused by this concept ? &#8220;Hummers.&#8221;)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NanoBot blogger Howard Lovy takes an amusing look at what would&#8217;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&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/10\/50000-years-bc-vcs\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}