Where Do New Ideas Really Come From? 

I didn't expect a guy setting fire in the marshes to go on and build a battery!! 🤯

Club soda and hypodermic needles, ❤ u keep churning out good content

♥ Blossom ♥

Never thought club soda had a part in this dance.

Einstein must have been a fulcrum for much of modern science, but even he couldn't have done it without everyone prior

Why is your comment from 15 hrs ago when this video was just uploaded???

I love how this quote gets attached to Isaac Newton for all eternity. As if Newton was some sort of humble genius sharing the credit with his peers. Nothing could be further from the truth. Newton did indeed write that quote in a letter to Robert Hooke. It was a jibe at the medical condition Hooke suffered from, a rather severe form of scoliosis. I say this not to disparage Isaac Newton. He was without peer. He was a rather colossal jerk, however.

So I was Eating an apple with a knife I think someone smarter than me should try it too and figure out the secrets

and ALL of those giants were White people, not blacks or asians or semites.

@@ShadowWizard123 Source: trust me bro regardless of that, he was standing on the shoulders of his ancestors, giant in glory and past deeds.

And all these things appear because someone with the right observations and connections did them. There were so many people involved in pursuing DNA structure! Even Linus Pauling who was sure it was the vitamin C molecule. (much too short, Linus) What is sad is the Nobel prize is not awarded posthumously. All those who worked on it shared in the award except the one woman-Rosalind Franklin-because she died before it was awarded. Even so, Franklin and Pauling erred in their research, which was important, too. DNA Was _not_ vitamin C. The configuration of DNA Franklin worked with was not the form that would show the X-ray crystallography form of the double helix, the characteristic "X" form. The other configuration is what helped Watson and Crick find the final answer. So mistakes and close close calls are also part of the research process, as is all the work countless unnamed graduate students produce. Many don't get their names on published research.

That is why basic research is important, not just research on products that make money. It takes many small discoveries piled on top of each other the lead to world-changing discoveries.

How???

Exactly. I hate when I hear some ultra billionaire or millionaire claim, "I built this company from the ground up." Sorry, no, there are so many other things at play that give you a path to success.

So true. Though I'd argue the higher ups have the bigger egos. Musk, Bezos, Zuck, Jobs, SBF, etc

You have causality all backwards

Haha Elon Musk

SLAPPA DA BOARD!

@@besmarthey, you watched HIMYM, you are a normal person 💡

For real, the slapping was at least half of my enjoyment of watching this video! (The other half was learning obviously! :D)

​@@besmartwhen western countries tried to sell medicine for smallpox to poor countries. the Soviet Union through WHO budgeted to distribute the smallpox vaccine to everyone freely. to eradicate the disease from the face of the earth. 1980 the world is free from smallpox

yep I’m in tech i kept thinking slapping switches, servers, routers, vlan tags on the board 🤣

Hm. It does not feel like a coherent story to me. In the same way I could tell a story that "explains" the color of your pants today by the weather forecast in Nigeria 7 weeks ago. Just find some random points in the middle.

Well, that's partially the point. Tho this is more of a cause and effect story rather than a bidirectional thing, the fact its messily connected similarly to other aspects of our world brings it down to earth from the mythicizing of innovation@@TheOneMaddin

@@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 But why should this strategy work for bringing things down to earth. You can apply it to literally ANYTHING, even things that are not down to earth and are literal strokes of genius. You know what I mean?

I don't think I do sadly. Even a stroke of genius,, is only possible because of all the knowledge they learned from others, and only be conveyed using the language that was created by others, and a huge dose of lucky circumstances

James Burke Connections TV series was like this video.

James Burke's first history of science education series was called "Connections" I believe. Burke's work was of such high calibre that most of the shows could be used in high school still. Akin to Carl Sagan's Cosmos.

Thank you for your correction. I feel the 'Connections' series was the best of his productions. I'm glad to hear that they are still being used at the High School level. I wish those productions were getting more coverage today despite being somewhat dated. it is sad that each new generation requires exposure to reformatted productions of such stories. To many youth assume that every new development will blossom into a practical application in the future.

Came looking for this comment! “Connections: An Alternative View of Change” was a favorite of mine as well. Burke’s questions in the final episode about how we handle increasingly rapid change and increasing complexity remain with me to this day.

Same. One of the most influential presentations of my childhood. Would love to see an updated version created by a presenter like Joe... or at least see PBS create a remastered version (my VHS player broke way back when people knew what VHS was)

@@rickstraw588 did you watch the 25th anniversary special?

Ditto!

Well, you're never gonna guess who helped me come up with this episode! James is the 🐐

How is ur comment from hrs ago when the video was just uploaded? What

Came here to say the EXACT same thing (about James Burke and Connections, not about the odd timing of your comment). Another of my take-aways from the Connections series was how so many "discoveries" are duplicated around the world more or less at the same time.

Just the best show. Loved watching how someone measuring a mud puddle lead to the semiconductor.

​@@raymondqiu8202I think Patreon patrons get to see the video some time before the rest of us.

Yeah buddy, this is called cope. That’s quite alright, maybe you just aren’t exceptional.

​@turolretar what a sad life you live

@@turolretarmaybe not, but I’m going to try my best anyway

​@@turolretar So... had a few questions after reading your comment. What, exactly, is a "cope"? Is that "that's" name? Or did you mean that that's what that's do? Cope, that is? Because I could have sworn that cope was generally employed as a verb, and that that's name was simply that. Is that wrong? Or is that cope?

​@@turolretarYou better check yourself before trolling people much more brilliant than yourself. You're about to need some new dealing mechanisms to handle Thass. olé.

That was a fantastic series!

Also reminds me of the PBS series “Connections: An Alternate View of Change” hosted by James Burke.

Joe and Burke have, allegedly, been thinking about doing a show together for some time.

There's 40 episodes of Connections, Connections2, and Connections3, plus 10 of The Day the Universe Changed...

I came here for this comment. While it's great and definitely needed to highlight the power of the free exchange of ideas and drawing inspiration from many sources, even after all of those pieces came together it still took decades of hard work and negative results to improve our understanding of the interactions in the body, improve our techniques, tools, and technology, as well as just general trial and error, to actually find a way to make mRNA actually work for vaccines. And none of those many dedicated scientists and lab techs who kept at it despite slow, tedious, small bits of progress (or often none), but who ultimately made it possible in the end, are likely to ever be talked about in a video like this. And that's a shame.

And Joe did not even touch open the other aspect of a lot of inventions: accidental mistakes. e.g the inventor trying to find a use for sap from the rubber tree. Forgot about a pot of boiling sap and it got hot, started to smoke. He threw the pot and all out the window. After going out to get something to eat, he saw the pot and black stuff in it, on the ground and gave it a disgruntled kick. The 'rubber' was solid. The invention of the first smooth chocolate was because on Friday an employee forgot to turn off the milling machine and on Monday morning, in 1879, in Bern Switzerland, Rodolphe Lindt was the first person to taste smooth, melt in the mouth chocolate. Mistakes that are observed and acted on, can lead to some historic breakthroughs.

I hope you're right! If we accept each other with open arms, ears and minds, we can accomplish amazing things. Much more than if we each charge forward individually

Nice

No, I think you are right! The last step will be accepting the truth of our history, and rather than minimizing the geniuses of past who brought us to this point, delighting in the opportunity to live in the world which their discoveries have enabled.

You are wrong. Geniuses aren't stupid enough to think they are working in a vacuum. Only clowns believe that. There is nothing special about this video. It is really just insulting to people, and it says that we are too stupid to realize that discoveries are not simple ideas created from nothing.

The "freaking geniuses" is also what inspires others to do the millions of tiny acts.

They both are and aren't. Often when you have large corporations they have usually ended up getting to the "end of innovation" in that particular tech. Like Washing Machines haven't really changed significantly for decades.

This traces back to the formation of big corporations. When a big innovative boom in industry happened in the US for the first time during the second industrial revolution, a huge space for growing suddenly was opened up. During this time, the market was freer than ever, and lots of companies could grow without any limitations. However, all this exponential growth always reaches an inevitable limit that can be a physical one, like not finding more mineral deposits, or, in that case, fulfilling all the demand and surpassing it, which led to the crash of 1929. Now that the growth has reached an upper limit, the only way for a company to grow more is by surpassing others in a competition where (in the context of the crisis) the tiny differences between those companies was enough to make the smaller ones fall apart and open "space" in the limited demand for the slightly larger ones to take over until only one or a few survived, once that happens is almost impossible for another company to surpass it/them starting from scratch in normal market conditions. These innovations and limitations happen in isolated sectors as well. If a new innovative technology like the early internet emerges, a new space is opened up, and new companies can grow and take over that space, but as soon as a limit is reached, they compete until only some dominate the entire sector or even only one in more extreme scenarios. The end of innovations is just one of the barriers that can limit growth, not a general rule for the formation of big monopolistic corporations.

Aaah my kinda people... I'll be the only one to point out the lack of diversity on that "whiteboard." Imagine how much further along humanity could be right now if ALL the available minds were allowed to read books all day. Patent law is no different, science and information are locked up for decades at a time. Innovation is all about getting ahead; it has nothing to do with the "journey." Perhaps I'm just too literal with my language, focusing too much on the effects of the issue, instead of expressing my view in a coherent manner. Take this video, for instance. I get that they're also trying to change the way we see innovation. Don't get me wrong, getting ahead is not a bad thing, and in a world with so much competition, it is a necessity. This means it is always "produced," making it a tangible thing that can be traded and sold. The way this process is implemented should change. Globalization is inevitable, share the information and make everyone's lives a little easier, with fair compensation for the innovator, of course, instead of giving them the ability to monopolize entire industries. Instead, we have to see the greatest scientific achievements come to light in the midst of world wars.

@@MinusMedleyNotice a little thing about the whiteboard... Those are all people with resources... most of those people had profit motives to do it. Innovation doesn't come from pure goodness of your heart. Profit motives have created some of the biggest medicinal advantages, and for that matter computers would likely not have been consumer products if it wasn't for profit motives.

@@SioxerNikitathere is another motive more sinister than profit, which is the desire to see oneself and one’s group above (better than) someone else and their group. Even that isn’t intrinsically a bad thing, but a problem arises because some people are willing to settle for less for themselves if that means that others are disadvantaged more. Put succinctly, if given a choice between “$100 for you and $100 for someone else you don’t even know” and “$80 for you and $50 for that random other person” some people will choose the $80 instead of the $100 because the $80 puts them ahead of someone else. They are willing to forego $20 in order to force someone else to forego $50. This is the motivation behind many seemingly irrational choices that people make.

Which channel

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@@besmartno

I dare@@besmart

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Right?

Him and his brother did come up with the idea for PayPal, its how he started Tesla. His brother opened a restaurant. I wouldn't say Elon is a prime example of an innovator but he definitely has introduced some new ideas.

That's just not true. Elon loves to claim to have founded all kinds of things. PayPal wasn't his creation. He was part of another finance company that merged with the company behind PayPal. Then he later cashed out on the PayPal stocks after they kicked him.

That's because Elon Musk isn't a scientist

@@mandolinda yes that is my point.. why he is among the scientists in the video roll..