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On 30/04/15 11:44, Simon Brown wrote:


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On 30/04/15 06:12, wrote:
On Wednesday, 29 April 2015 18:41:38 UTC+1, harry wrote:

Advancement rarely comes by accident these days.
Inventors "stand on the shoulders" of their predeccesors.
So if you have no education, you are unlikely to invent anything.
Or even have an idea of what's possible.

yes

Virtually all the easy stuff has been found out.
No more inventions in garden sheds these days.

utter rubbish

Sadly not true.

Fraid so.

At least in terms of major break throughs.

That isn't true either, most obviously with apps.

Do you really thing apps are a serious breakthrough?

Some of them are, most obviously with an app that can for
example listen to a bird call and show you what bird it is.

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

We aren't discussing solving the world's problems, we
are discussing whether invention still happens today.

Visicalc is a better example for solving some of the world's
problems and is another relatively recent invention.

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


Inventing the transistor was a serious breakthrough.

Yes.

Not coding up a bit of java

That can be too when it does something that hasnt been done before.

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

Do I get a Nobel Prize?

Dan Bricklin didnt get one. Arafat did tho.