Below is a reminder of how quickly things can change. Are you ready?


Take a look at this picture of 5th Avenue in New York in 1900. Can you spot the car?


Now look at this picture from 1913. Yes, this time where's the horse?


In 1908 the first Model T Ford rolled off the production line; by 1930 the equestrian age was, to all intents and purposes, over - and all thanks to the disruptive power of an earlier tech innovation - the internal combustion engine.

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