Kevin Kelly: Invention and Discovery Are the Same

“To find something is the same as making it. To make something is the same as finding it.



We tend to think that natural forms are discovered while artificial forms are invented, but when stripped to its essentials the path to arriving at a novel natural form is exactly the same journey as arriving at a novel artificial form. “



via kk.org



It’s been all about ideas, inventions and discoveries lately and how they come to be. I’ve read Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From, and have yet to get a copy of Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants (both were released last October).

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