New Yorker: Malcolm Gladwell on collaborative innovation(newyorker.com)

15 pointsby wsculley18 anni fa2 comments

New Yorker: Malcolm Gladwell on collaborative innovation

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_gladwell/?currentPage=all

Gladwell discuses the notion of multiplicity - people coming up with the same ideas at the same time, e.g. Bell's and Gray's telephones - and a group's attempt to simulate the inventive process:

Intellectual Ventures (IV; http://www.intellectualventures.com/) collects great minds in the same place to come up with solutions to big problems.

Have a look.

1 comments

D_T18 anni fa

I believe this was already posted. Entitled "Malcolm Gladwell: Who says big ideas are rare?" Note to pg: the only difference between the two links is a "/"

alexfarran18 anni fa

Here it is http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181392