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155: Where Good Ideas Come From by Stephen Johnson

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Is There a Good Example of a Sound Storage Solution?

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It takes an idea from this spot right beside us and then we can use it in this existing place So It kind of floats over from side to side there. Charles Babbage created the difference engine and the analytical engine which was over a hundred years before the first computer And it did not take off. The argument that Stephen Johnson makes is that it was because it was outside of the adjacent possible for Everybody in the culture at the time. I feel like the same argument could be made for something like apples newton.

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