I was just reading on Slashdot today and found this article about some people at UC-Berkley doing research on the connetions between language and thought. Whcih is something I wrote about 5~6 months earlier. It seems that this idea was thought of over 70 years ago 1930, otherwise known as the Saphir-Wharf Hypothesis (SHF).
It's just kind of amazing to realize that random people in different parts of the world and eras comming up with similar ideas.
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Anyways, I'm actually not surprised about this since I work with patents and the issue pops up quite often. Actually, one time my company filed a patent just days before someone else published a paper containing a very similar idea. One could postulate that 99% of your ideas have been thought of before. That 1% is where true innovation lies.
Of course, then there are those ideas that you wish nobody would have thought of, like the ass-shocker patent: http://www.patentlysilly.com/patent.php?patID=6901884
Well there is that saying by Thomas Edison made waay back that went along the lines of "1% inspiration, 99% expiration." Lots of ideas, thought of just randomly but not many people do anything useful.
Now that ass-shocker... duuude, what was he thinking about on that one!?
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