“””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. Once a device had been invented, the inventor then had to find an application for it.
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invention is often the mother of necessity, rather than vice versa.”””Excerpt From
Jared Diamond-Guns Germs and Steel
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