Jack St Clair Kilby came up with the idea of the integrated circuit during the summer of 1958. According to Texas Instruments, most of his colleagues had left f

Jack St Clair Kilby came up with the idea of the integrated circuit during the summer of 1958. According to Texas Instruments, most of his colleagues had left for the traditional two-week holiday period, but Kilby "as a new employee with no vacation, stayed to man the shop" Left to his own devices at work, Kilby decided to try and crack the "tyranny-of-numbers" issue facing the industry I wonder how many more breakthroughs like this we would see if companies had a policy like Google's '20% time' but condensed into single stretches.