The great inventions do not look to be incremental because they are presented that way. Personally I find it fascinating to burst that bubble by looking into th

The great inventions do not look to be incremental because they are presented that way. Personally I find it fascinating to burst that bubble by looking into the rare histories of what lead up to what are considered the great tentpole developments. I really think everything is incremental in progress. Where things are closer to us, we can see the incremental steps. Where we think of the great things of the past, we are completely ignorant of the incremental steps that came before.