Jack Kilby described his invention of the Integrated Circuit as the result of being on a team that wasn't good at anything besides making silicon wafers. So he figured out how to put capacitors and resistors on a silicon wafer alongside the transistors.
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He was also a new employee and had no summer vacation, so he did all those trials while everybody was out and nobody was minding his business. So I would add "freedom to explore" to your list of ingredients.
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technology version of a near-extinction event leading to innovation - interesting thought!
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Similar to Parkinson's Law of Storage. http://catb.org/jargon/html/P/Parkinsons-Law-of-Data.html …
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Could you explain a bit more? (Example?)
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Constraints is the muse of invention and creativity
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Constraints of this sort can be beneficial ... or they can, surely, be fatal; and it seems to be to a large extent the lottery of fate as to which they turn out to be.
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When is fortnite on android going to release on Samsung galaxy j5 (2017)?
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K.I.S.K.
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Will the full release of fort nite be for mid range devices this month? Rlly want this game
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Can you tell the developers of fortnite to fix the game. The lag is terrible. I will not play until it is fixed. Please.
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