"Every significant invention must startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it." -Edwin Land
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Replying to @cdixon
Unexpected perhaps, but not always startling. Big new ideas often seem inconsequential and thus boring at first.
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A fave eg: Max Planck's quantum hypothesis looked to be a technical gimmick solving an esoteric problem in thermodynamics...
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