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[tabbypurr]

As time goes on it gets ever harder to invent 'a serious breakthrough,' wha tever exactly that means. So the percentage of lone inventors falls, but no t to zero. Many inventions are concepts rather than brute force trial, and significant concepts can still be and are still produced by single minds.

The computer is a geat example - although long in the past, it was a piece of elemental conceptual thinking that changed history. Its construction is an example of where money is required, but its invention is not.

NT

[Tim Streater]

What breakthrough was that, then? Do tell, I'm keen to know.

[harryagain]

Norway hasn't been socialist for years.

[harryagain]

That was quite some time ago. Are you planning to invent anti-gravity n your shed? Or create anti-matter? That would be some breakthrough.

[harryagain]

As time goes on it gets ever harder to invent 'a serious breakthrough,' whatever exactly that means. So the percentage of lone inventors falls, but not to zero. Many inventions are concepts rather than brute force trial, and significant concepts can still be and are still produced by single minds.

The computer is a geat example - although long in the past, it was a piece of elemental conceptual thinking that changed history. Its construction is an example of where money is required, but its invention is not.

Drivel. Thousands of people were involved in making a working device. It was derived from previous mechancal devices in any case. Some going back thousands of years.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

One expects journalists to be inaccurate. It's what they do for a living. Just hoped for higher standards on here.

[harryagain]

[The Natural Philosopher]

Fuck me that is really going to solve the world problems.,

One starving man to another 'Ere that's a blackbird, notta thrush' 'Fuck off so I can die in peace'

I can type the keys here and make your computer spell Catfartinabasketaquilidocious. That's never been done before.

Do I get a Nobel Prize?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Actually I suspect they may well have. I bet somewhere in the annals there is a case of suffocations for someone climbing up and exhaust stack.

My point however was that CO2 can kill you if it excludes oxygen.

It is a poison so to speak .

[The Natural Philosopher]

I suspect if he pushes his head further up his own arse he might discover dark matter.

[The Natural Philosopher]

*was*. Ive produced loads of viable flying machines in my hobby room. They are not breakthroughs though and those days are gone.

No they are not,. They *were* perhaps a serious breakthrough, but really all the breakthrough was in fact the petrol internal combustion engine. Once that existed aircraft were inevitable.

[The Natural Philosopher]

No he didn't.

he just packaged up some chips in a rather ckueful way.

Oh f*ck OFF with your 'apps' Apps are just ideas expressed in software. There is nothing new there at all, just filling in the corners as the last few areas that haven't been coded to death get coded to death.

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[The Natural Philosopher]

Probably prime as well.

[Chris Hogg]

The only Wozniak that I'm aware of is Stephen Wozniak of Apple fame. According to his Wiki entry, the only thing he's done with aircraft is to crash one. So obviously not him or it would have been mentioned. So who then, and what did he do?

[The Natural Philosopher]

For sure if its just an idea, I've got a great one. Instantaneous matter transfer.

I am sure now you have that idea you can build me a matter transmitter.

[The Natural Philosopher]

He found out how to mix cannabis and ecstasy, and broke through to another dimension.

[Tim Streater]

In 1965 I wrote an "app" which ran on an Elliott 803B, to use Newton's method to obtain square roots. Do I get a Nobel Prize?

[tabbypurr]

whatever exactly that means. So the percentage of lone inventors falls, bu t not to zero. Many inventions are concepts rather than brute force trial, and significant concepts can still be and are still produced by single mind s.

ece of elemental conceptual thinking that changed history. Its construction is an example of where money is required, but its invention is not.

Congrats on missing the point. An invention is not an idea, its demonstrati ng how to do the idea - and that's not the same as doing it. Babbage never made his computer work but he did invent it. His plans, when followed later , worked.

NT

[tabbypurr]

a real compliment from you

I don't believe his son employed 1000s of people

as most all inventions are

NT

[Fredxxx]

Maybe, but a lot of utilities are a state monopoly.