"Every significant invention must startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it." -Edwin Land
Unexpected perhaps, but not always startling. Big new ideas often seem inconsequential and thus boring at first.
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no, every really big idea is starting and consequential.
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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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Love your essays even though you don't like suits. Ex suit now retired.
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and do you have a theory to explain why?
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check out Taleb's restaurateur thought experiment (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/books/chapters/0422-1st-tale.html?_r=0 …). basically, efficient markets.
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