Friday, October 26, 2018

[xeizbshn] Early developments of a technology

Although we celebrate the first to achieve a technology, what happens immediately afterward is often very exciting: the technology gets rapidly refined (often by others, assuming no zealous intellectual property enforcement, which is a big if).

The Wright brothers' first plane was not very good.  Who built the first good plane by modern standards?

After a good mathematical proof, the techniques of the proof often get used to prove other things.

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