1/Tools come to define technology revolutions much more than some routinely give them credit for compared to big theories, tough concepts.
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2/The PC, internet, now mobile phone are tools that build on each other unleashing creativity in ways even their inventors did not foresee.
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3/See both T. Kuhn (Structure of Scientific Revolutions) & F. Dyson (The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolution)
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4/ Tools change society immense amounts across fields. Ex: radio, crystallography, microscope, encryption, CCD, transistor, MRI, PCR, MEMS…
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5/This Dyson excerpt hung in my office much of my career/means a lot ("George Green and Physics", Physics World, '93)pic.twitter.com/Tr3tO3ncRR
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@stevesi Kuhn was surely most influenced by the Copernican Revolution. http://amzn.to/1tILfE8 Excellent book incidentally.
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