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Sometimes fear crushes our imagination.

Nearly 130 years ago, two young dreamers named Wilbur and Orville Wright ran a bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio. They came from an influential and scholarly family. It appeared that books would be their future, maybe as lawyers, doctors, or scholars. But these siblings were more town than gown, and they couldn’t be pulled away from their shop at 22 South Williams Street.

This was unimaginable because people in this era feared bicycles.

Do you know how far a child could drift from home on a bike? Have you heard about the bad influences in the nearby town?

Cyclists were perceived as unsafe, unwise, and possibly sinful. It was like Uber, AI, and vaping all in one.

The Wrights were even more controversial for their second dream: this bicycle might fly. If someone was nervous about a kid traveling to another county, imagine what they would think about crossing the Atlantic Ocean by air. Not that this mattered, because it wasn’t like these men were actually going to create a contraption that could fly. Not only did most people find the project unlikely, they deemed it scientifically impossible. Birds fly; people do not.

Yet Wilbur and Orville committed themselves to a dream that could change the course of history. One person said that they didn’t just invent flight; they opened up a door to the world.

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