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You can say something similar about a lot of inventions or discoveries that happened in a time when many others were working in the same area. Light bulbs, pow
by helsinkiandrew 5y ago
You can say something similar about a lot of inventions or discoveries that happened in a time when many others were working in the same area. Light bulbs, powered flight, calculus, the EMF laws etc.
History seems to like a single origin story.
- flohofwoe 5y agoNot just history and not just inventions (ok, this quote is pretty much history by now too): "There's a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person," says Warren Spector, creator of Thief and Deus Ex. I guess whoever wrote that line didn't even get the irony. https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/11/12/deus-ex-2 https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/11/12/deus-ex-2