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Disagree. You are thinking small, all of those industries were created in the last 100-200 years.
by nighthawk24 13y ago
Disagree. You are thinking small, all of those industries were created in the last 100-200 years.
- mobitar 13y agoWhat in your opinion are new products that are 100% original? I'm sure there might be a few, but probably very little.
- danrik 13y agoWhat new products of the last 200 years have been 100% original? Vanishingly few, I'd wager. Almost every "invention" is an iteration.
- gooderlooking 13y agoWith this line of thinking, nothing was ever an invention. The first tools were just an iteration over banging things with rocks.
- gooderlooking 13y agoViable electric cars, light bulbs connected to wifi, Raspberry Pi, robots that run like cheetahs, quad copters, quantum computers... But saying "I'm sure there might be a few but..." indicates your disposition will be critical of an objective response. You're probably going to argue that IoT light bulbs are just lightbulbs + wifi. But Edison didn't invent copper wire or glass, and nobody questions whether the lightbulb was an invention. It's the same argument that no thoughts are unique, they are just derivative of prior thoughts. But the conclusion is hasty and incomplete. It's easy to deconstruct ideas (and inventions), a posteriori, into a collection of parts that existed prior. But the combination of those parts is what constitutes uniqueness.