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So, I believe the
invention
of the computer Internet is an inevitable consequence of a previously proven, biologically successful model.
Now, if necessity is the mother of invention, I've come to believe that recession can be the father of consciousness.
It's the
invention
of the refrigerator, and the fact that we're no longer eating spoiled meats.
Take what may be the most important
invention
of modern times: programmable computers.
The whole idea of hardware and software becomes thinkable for the first time with this
invention.
Necessity isn't always the mother of
invention.
In the words of economist Thorstein Veblen,
invention
is the mother of necessity.
And we contrast that to the other way, an
invention
that happened after the Second World War, suburban sprawl, clearly not compact, clearly not diverse, and it's not walkable, because so few of the streets connect, that those streets that do connect become overburdened, and you wouldn't let your kid out on them.
CA: Yuval, there's a belief among many technologists, certainly, that political concerns are kind of overblown, that actually, political leaders don't have that much influence in the world, that the real determination of humanity at this point is by science, by invention, by companies, by many things other than political leaders, and it's actually very hard for leaders to do much, so we're actually worrying about nothing here.
So I try to create this energy of
invention
every day in my studio.
The inventors don't know what the
invention
is.
Like the greatest
invention
since the telegraph or something.
Since the
invention
of scuba, scientists have measured the amount of coral on the seafloor, and how it's changed through time.
And as a matter of fact, a few years ago, Sanoussi Diakité, a Senegalese engineer, won a Rolex prize for his
invention
of the first mechanized fonio processor.
I don't have time to talk about it today, but if you think about it, I would say that in the last 25 years, of every
invention
or innovation that's occurred in this country, the biggest one in terms of impact on the well-being of people who live in the inner city, was crack cocaine.
But 10,000 years after its invention, local farms are still following in the footsteps of their Neolithic ancestors, hand crafting one of humanity’s oldest and favorite foods.
And actually, ironically, it was human safety that motivated the
invention
of CFCs in the first place.
But really, at the time, CFCs were a really remarkable
invention.
So it's about time that we talked about how the computer ambushed television, or why the
invention
of the atomic bomb unleashed forces that lead to the writers' strike.
It's a kind of
invention
of the museum that's supposed to bring a kind of cohesive understanding to the public of a body of work.
In fact, the pace of
invention
has gone up, not gone down, in my opinion.
In 132 CE, Chinese polymath Zhang Heng presented the Han court with his latest
invention.
The story begins over 300 years ago, when Galileo Galilei first learned of the recent Dutch
invention
that took two pieces of shaped glass and put them in a long tube and thereby extended human sight farther than ever before.
And while this idea of a voyage to the Moon by goose machine might not seem particularly insightful or technically creative to us today, what's important is that Godwin described getting to the Moon not by a dream or by magic, as Johannes Kepler had written about, but rather, through human
invention.
Well, because the discovery of the laws of gravity by Newton and the
invention
of the vacuum pump by Robert Hooke and Robert Boyle meant that people now understood that a condition of vacuum existed between the planets, and consequentially between the Earth and the Moon.
It was begun with the
invention
of relativity theory and quantum theory.
It's a history of
invention
based around this.
The best example of this would probably be the Gothic, and the Gothic was invented after the
invention
of calculus, although the Gothic architects weren't really using calculus to define their forms.
So, what I thought I would bring up is another component that needs to be thought of, whenever you think about nature, and that's basically the
invention
of generic form in genetic evolution.
"The
invention
of printing did away with anonymity, fostering ideas of literary fame and the habit of considering intellectual effort as private property," which had never been done before printing.
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