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

People: Charles Darwin,  Charles Babbage (1791-1871),  Willis Haviland Carrier

Places: Buffalo,  Pacific Ocean,  Indian Ocean,  MIT,  Seattle