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A normal day on #smogon, and rodan was linking to things, as he tends to do.
Anyway, he linked to this image:
And the general reaction was that this list is ridiculous.
So we had a little discussion about who we thought actually were the greatest innovators of all time, and came up with names like Leonardo, Socrates and Newton.
Anyway, I didnt really think about it again, until last night when I was discussing Oliver Sacks with my Mum, and she mentioned Temple Grandin. So I told her the story of this image, and how it included Amelia Earhart, but not the Wright brothers etc.
Anyway, this lead to a long conversation where we discussed who we thought actually were the greatest innovators of all time, which included my Dad making a pretty compelling case for Darwin and me showing them Askaninjask's maths thread. Anyway, one thing we came up with was we had limited fields of interest, and there were probably a bunch of Chinese people who none of us had ever heard of, but we kinda agreed it was an interesting topic of conversation.
So, since you guys are all such nerds, and since you have broad areas of interest and some of you are Chinese, and since, provided we can mostly avoid getting mired in the semantics of innovation, this seems to be a pretty interesting topic of conversation generally, I am curious to see what kind of a list we can build out of the combined knowledge of a forum.
Anyway, he linked to this image:
And the general reaction was that this list is ridiculous.
So we had a little discussion about who we thought actually were the greatest innovators of all time, and came up with names like Leonardo, Socrates and Newton.
Anyway, I didnt really think about it again, until last night when I was discussing Oliver Sacks with my Mum, and she mentioned Temple Grandin. So I told her the story of this image, and how it included Amelia Earhart, but not the Wright brothers etc.
Anyway, this lead to a long conversation where we discussed who we thought actually were the greatest innovators of all time, which included my Dad making a pretty compelling case for Darwin and me showing them Askaninjask's maths thread. Anyway, one thing we came up with was we had limited fields of interest, and there were probably a bunch of Chinese people who none of us had ever heard of, but we kinda agreed it was an interesting topic of conversation.
So, since you guys are all such nerds, and since you have broad areas of interest and some of you are Chinese, and since, provided we can mostly avoid getting mired in the semantics of innovation, this seems to be a pretty interesting topic of conversation generally, I am curious to see what kind of a list we can build out of the combined knowledge of a forum.