A Progressive Binary
The Bicycle and its Offshoots
[Dalí, Sentimental Colloquy, 1944]
The bicycle’s history reads like a trial run for the onset of modernity. Long before we slipped into a steel and glass envelope powered by a motor, we had already begun the quest for rapid movement, this time on two slender in-line wheels, wobbling toward a future that would move faster than any other creature on land, …
