Once upon a time , “ inventor ” was an good - to - god occupation . You could check a loge , and tell the U.S. Census Bureau that ’s what you were . Now , discoverer are as - seen - as - on - tv set caricatures and “ innovation ” is a corporate - speak . We want to celebrate innovation . Eureka .
Eureka evokes mythological giants of wizardry like Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison . World - changing products like the bidet , and Post - It notes and the telephone . Mad scientists like Doc Brown . Hot tub sentence simple machine . Modern daytime savants and tinkerer like Dean Kamen and Sir James Dyson . It ’s also corporations , like Microsoft and Apple , evolve natural drug user port technologies and tremendous miniature . Crappy Taiwanese firms re - imagining what can hump USB ports . Intellectual Ventures wants to direct us toward new way of devise , treating ideas like software to be licensed and sell .
The nature of invention today is very different than it was a hundred years ago , but the essential element , the wonder of human ingeniousness in all its forms , is still very much the same . That ’s what we want to wrap our heads around this week .

Eurekais our week - retentive meditation on the wonder of excogitation , inventors and genius .
instance by our contributing illustratorSam Spratt . Check out Sam’sportfolioand become a buff of hisFacebook Artist ’s Page .
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