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Inventors Who Didn't Invent What They Are Famous for Inventing
- fortran77 7mo agoWSJ Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/us-famous-inventions-inventors-wrong-3d5b0a0f?st=DyU6na&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink https://www.wsj.com/tech/us-famous-inventions-inventors-wron...
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- PaulShomo 7mo agoAt a fundamental level, our society works by giving the corporate spokesperson credit for everything thought up or done in their organization. Really, credit for a whole lotta other claims too. CEOs and spokespeople are more brand avatars with megaphones, than actual people dealing in fact. Unfortunately this setup confuses hero worshippers.
- BobbyTables2 7mo agoI think it’s partly because they are psychopaths (once had a manager that got promoted on my hard work while holding me down) and partly deserving of a little credit for not killing every alternate idea that ran contrary to their own. Yeah, I don’t like either…
- Rekindle8090 7mo ago[flagged]
- themafia 7mo agoPersonally I think Gauss gets a little more credit than he strictly deserves.
- theturtle 7mo ago[dead]
- musicale 7mo agoThere is also a difference between invention and innovation (including successful commercialization.) Apple didn't invent GUI-based computers, MP3 players, smartphones, tablet PCs, smartwatches, wireless earphones, or ARM-based laptops. But the Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple watch, AirPods, and M1 MacBook Air were all category-defining products.
- readthenotes1 7mo agoAlas, Xerox Parc
- musicale 7mo agoPerhaps unsurprisingly, a number of PARC alumni went to Apple and Microsoft.
- blurbleblurble 7mo agoElon Musk
- ferryth 7mo agohttps://archive.ph/MkVCI https://archive.ph/MkVCI
- vrighter 7mo agono mention of thomas edison not inventing the lightbulb?