invention

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• SOURCE: The New Atlantis
  6/12/2023
  

  Hollywood Has Abandoned the Citizen-Inventor

  After generations of populist inventors making the things they need, Hollywood has framed our relationship to invention as receiving the gifts bestowed on us by plutocrats. 

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• SOURCE: Zócalo
  12/19/2022
  

  Today's Tech Bro and the Victorian Genius Both Reflect a False Narrative of Progress

  by Iwan Rhys Morus

  The cults of "disruption" and genius obscure the fact that innovation is typically cooperative, and dependent on a society that sustains and implements new knowledge. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/12/2022
  

  Why Has American Progress Stalled? Blame Our Belief in "Eureka!"

  Moments of creative innovation matter, but invention depends on a society that is prepared to take advantage and distribute the benefits.