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From Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs, the individual inventor is a hero in our popular imagination Am I reading this incorrectly? Are they promoting the idea that
by zizee 13y ago
From Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs, the individual inventor is a hero in our popular imagination
Am I reading this incorrectly? Are they promoting the idea that Steve Jobs is an individual inventor?
- redwall_hp 13y agoHe definitely wasn't. And more importantly, neither was Edison.
- jonny_eh 13y agoPatents with his name on it: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/24/technology/steve-jobs-patents.html?ref=multimedia http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/24/technology/ste... While he didn't invent all that stuff himself, it's not like he had nothing to do with any of it.
- judk 13y agoThat's not what "individual" means. Both of then ran organizations of inventors.
- jacquesm 13y agoI read that as promoting the opposite, that both Jobs & Edison did very well on the work of others.
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