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Have you read Bradbury’s There Will Come Soft Rains? One of my all-time favorite short stories.

I don't remember the name, but one of my favorites of his takes place in an Asian country completely surrounded by a Great Wall.

A young man creates a pair of wings that allow him to fly anywhere, including over the wall, that he demonstrates to the King.

The King has him killed before he can demonstrate it to anyone else, because the technology represents an existential threat to their civilization.

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Oddly enough, the name is "The Flying Machine."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Machine_(short_story)

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Bradbury was a genius.

As are all good science fiction writers.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells…..