And another thing to keep in mind: I've long advocated that most seminal/ground breaking ideas of the past have been breeding for some time, and it's only our t

And another thing to keep in mind: I've long advocated that most seminal/ground breaking ideas of the past have been breeding for some time, and it's only our tendency to assign them to individuals that has given some people status of an idol. Perhaps they were instrumental in putting thought and ideas that came before them into self-supporting works, but thought and ideas were not necessarily (all) their own. And if that is the case, how important is that we lose this easy "referencability"?