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Planes have a fucking destination and are designed to move volumes of people from A to B, and still can't compete with rail over 1000km distances (see: France).
Video games were designed to be replayable and accessible to the masses, running on the common hardware at the time.
The Wright brothers didn't have a fucking destination they were just trying to fly.
They were trying to invent a device of practical utility that could carry passengers and payloads, not to empower the eccentric elite
I don't think there's really any evidence of that.
I'm sure they were mindful of the potential applications, in the same way that we're mindful of the potential for orbital solar arrays and asteroid mining.
You want to build a train from Japan to San Francisco? Bring back ocean liners like the Titanic?
I said 1000km - that's short to mid-haul