A Few Notes
Like sport, technologies change over time and vary by place. Just as "Vanilla Dunk" gave us a glimpse of an alternate basketball game, you can imagine a world full of different technologies. The bicycle did not need to develop in the ways that it did. It could have remained a high wheeler and never taken off to become popular. Alternatively, the bicycle could have become more popular than the automobile is in the U.S. So, whenever you think of technology, also try to think of the many things that went into its construction and its marketing.