The Last to “Discover” America

You don’t know what’s missing from a technology until it works Part of an occasional series of short reflections on technology. The Skálholt Map (1590), illustrating Norse explorations of North America, including Vinland. Despite these early voyages, lasting European settlement in the Americas didn’t occur until centuries later. (Public Domain) There’s a kind of innovation that only looks obvious in hindsight. Not the first bold leap into unknown territory, but the last , when the minimum viable pieces fina