Apr 25, 2015
7:57:28pm
7:57:28pm
This is called "adjacent possibles" very few inventions stand alone.
Steve Johnson in his book "Where Ideas Come From" devotes a lot of time to this. William Carrier inventing air conditioning was one of the very few original ideas that made it from mind to consumer on its own.
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