Title: Where good ideas come from
Description: This work tracks the history of innovation in the form of the "slow hunch". The author discusses how new ideas form from the scaffolding of older ideas, a phenomenon he describes as the "adjacent possible". Includes delightful figures of how innovative ideas are shifting from one man with a plan for a profit to many minds working for the public good.
Subjects: invention, creativity, society, openness, innovation, vacuum tubes, evolution, the Beagle, coral reefs, Creativeness, Creative thinking, business, ideas, thinking, inventions, SCIENCE, Motivational, SOCIAL SCIENCE, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, History, Creative ability, Long Now Manual for Civilization
Places: Buffalo, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, MIT, Seattle
People: Charles Darwin, Charles Babbage (1791-1871), Willis Haviland Carrier