Why reinvent the wheel?

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Political history of the wheel.

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By: Caroline Lachowsky

2 min

What could be simpler and more brilliant than a wheel?

A look back at an invention that changed our lives and the face of the world, accelerating our development to the point of excess.

Is it time to reinvent the wheel?

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Let's question the simplest and most awesome object there is: the wheel!

Back on an invention that changed our lives and the face of the world, by influencing the entire history of humanity, by accelerating its development to the point of excess (because it is indeed the wheel that now turns the world, our world, faster and faster and not always in a good way).

When, where, how did man invent the wheel?

And above all for what?

Why did certain civilizations, the Aztecs in particular, never use it when they knew it?

Would another world have been or would it be possible without the wheel?

What if, more than a history of techniques, the history of wheel control was a political history?

With the writer

for his book

published by La Librairie Vuibert Éditions.

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