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It's a pretty big planet. At any given time, probably thousands of engineers are simultaneously thinking of building the same "next new thing."
by HeyLaughingBoy 5y ago
It's a pretty big planet. At any given time, probably thousands of engineers are simultaneously thinking of building the same "next new thing."
- AYBABTME 5y agoThere's a named phenomenon for this... I can't put my finger on it. Something about discoveries/inventions all independently piling up at the same time whenever all conditions are right in history.
- callmemclovin 5y agoMaybe you're thinking of the concept of multiple discovery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery