François CholletVerified account

Interesting, could you define the concept of "nameless people" ?

Agree, this book helps one to understand the innovation process. https://www.amazon.com/How-Innovation-Works-Flourishes-Freedom/dp/0062916599 …

Yup, not only perfecting crafts but it's all emerged from total failures and successes of inhabitants of the world

Progress is non linear , Euler made a 2000 years breakthroughs . Von Neumann research is levels above all other scientists of his era . Terrence Tao today. I am a great believer in perfecting craft although there is no end for that, real progress is rare (DNN is an example)

Name one

Evariste Galois developed the field theory in math used in Reed Solomon redundancy codes to enable anything from DVDs to Satellite communication. Got himself shot in a duel in 1832 at the age of 21. Could have been Euler 2. Anyone non-math wouldnt know that

The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne.

Or, as Bronowski said: ""We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do."