In the 1980's I attended an amazing talk by Lynn Conway. She described how with Carver Mead she had popularlized VLSI design methodology, using her studies in a

In the 1980's I attended an amazing talk by Lynn Conway. She described how with Carver Mead she had popularlized VLSI design methodology, using her studies in anthropology for insights into deliberately fomenting a revolution. She opened the talk with a map of birdwatcher observations, detailing the concentric circles of technology spread across England as blue tits taught each other to peck open foil caps: "In the early 20th century, milkmen would deliver milk to British doorsteps, in bottles that were sealed with foil caps. Then, in the 1920s, homeowners started noticing holes in the foil. The culprits were blue tits. They had learned to peck open the bottle caps to drink the layer of cream beneath. The behaviour quickly spread. By the 1950s, it seemed that every blue tit in Britain knew the technique." https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/scientists-instil-new-cultural-traditions-in-wild-tits https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/scientist...