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As Matt Ridley puts it in his TED talk ( http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.
by sylvinus 15y ago
As Matt Ridley puts it in his TED talk ( http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.htm... ) :
Nobody on earth knows how to build a computer mouse (all by himself).
- wazoox 15y agoActually nobody on earth knows how to make something apparently as simple as a pencil (obviously much, much simpler than a modern computer mouse). http://www.fee.org/library/books/i-pencil-2/ http://www.fee.org/library/books/i-pencil-2/
- joezydeco 15y agoI'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Toaster Project, where the artist is attempting to build a complete toaster from scratch (mining the metal out of the ground, smelting, etc) http://www.thetoasterproject.org/ http://www.thetoasterproject.org/