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Most inventions come from curiosity and tinkering, not from a demand for them

Drawn from what Jared Diamond said

Subjectscuriosityinnovation
What these subjects mean

curiosity Wanting to know for its own sake: what it does for good work, learning, creativity and a long life, and what happens to it with age.

innovation Where new things come from and how they spread: invention against diffusion, and being near the factory floor.

What Jared Diamond actually said

  1. Jared Diamond Geographer at the University of California, Los Angeles
    In fact, many or most inventions were developed by people driven by curiosity or by a love of tinkering, in the absence of any initial demand for the product they had in mind.

    Where this was said

    ↗Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (W. W. Norton, 2005 edition; first published 1997)archive.org

    c. 1997–2005

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