I feel this way about the history of technology / startups today

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

A sort of sense that the recombination of the past with the present matters more, than the discovery of new things, in and of itself (and a sort of always has been, attitude towards it, almost)

Maybe - innovation doesn't have to mean completely novel invention, but rather skillful recombination and re-contextualization of existing forms - again and again - and perhaps, it's sort of often been this way...

Researcher at MIT Media Lab | Creating futures | cyrus.website |

I think a truly original idea, is really an idea that is too radical because every idea is in fact supported by other accepted ideas

For example - imagine introducing people in the 6th century Byzantine Empire to the idea of ASML's EUVs and how to do photolithography on a bunch of sand and how that is going to be really important and really expensive, and cost over 150 million dollars in the 2020s

Doesn't it have to be this way since everything is a recombination limited by a physical seemingly finite reality? It doesn't seem possible to have a truly original, novel invention, more shades of grey from incremental to highly radical. 

In fact a truly original idea might be utterly unrecognizable.