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The Science of Innovation & When Doctors Make Mistakes

Something You Should Know

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The Common Threads of Invention and Innovation

The search engine was invented by hundreds of different people independently in the early 1990s. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the two people who made the most money out of search engines, didn't even think that's what they were doing. They thought they were cataloging the internet for a surprisingly long time. So there's a surprising phenomenon here where it looks very obvious in retrospect what comes next when you're there in the moment looking forwards.

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