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The Nature of Technology with Brain Arthur [Idea Machines #41]

Idea Machines

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Invention Isn't a Sort of Doing Something Supremely Creative in Your Mind

All inventions are basically as problem solving. How am i going to get to work? Andor how am I going to get my work done to morrow? Invention is not much different from that. In fact, that's the heart of invention. If we worked out that problem of getting worked when your car is gone, nobody would stand up and say, this was brilliant. Yet you've gone through exactly same bases as the guy who invented the palmers chain reaction. Lcant recall his nam older. But anyway.

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