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The Segway: The Machine That Was Supposed to Replace Walking
09/27/2026
The Segway: The Machine That Was Supposed to Replace Walking
In 2001, Steve Jobs called it "as big a deal as the PC." Investors poured in $90 million. Cities would be redesigned around it. Instead, the Segway became a punchline, a mall cop meme, and one of tech's most spectacular over-promises. We're diving into what went so spectacularly right and catastrophically wrong with the machine that was code-named "Ginger."
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