InventionIsHolistic

Context: OnIdeas

Many scientific discoveries and technological inventions are made simultaneously. They are "in the air" influenced by many recent other historical ideas.

• NathanMyhrvold's Harvesting them : http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fafactgladwell?currentPage=all

: Good response : if ideas are everywhere, why should we patent them and allow people like Myhrvold to grab them? http://techdirt.com/articles/20080507/0114581051.shtml

See also :

• SocialOriginOfGoodIdeas

• WikiIsACauldron