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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
The thing about innovation that always fascinated me was that with almost every major invention in history, several people independently arrived at the same inspiration and were working on similar prototypes right around the same time, without ever communicating with one another. It's like mankind was "ready" for that new direction.
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Usually there is a series of inventions(discoveries) that make it possible for that invention to happen.
Quite often people work on a problem for years and years, then somebody else discovers a new material or process that is the key to the inventors solution. When a number of people are working on the same problem independently, usually it's the one that hears about the new discovery first, that wins.
Today news travels so fast, virtually everyone might hear, right away.
