One thing jumped out at me while reading As We May Think by Vannevar Bush was the idea that great ideas are sometimes lost in the large, swarming crowd of other mediocre ideas. This is an interesting idea that I have never really thought of before, but it makes perfect sense to me. This idea borrows its main philosophy from the old idea of “A Diamond In The Rough”, where a brilliant thing, or idea, is found in the company of lesser ideas/things.
Bush also spoke about technological advances and alluded to the fact that all great things were once great, but not perfect, ideas. Diamonds in the rough. The computer keyboard technology was spawned out of the technology used for adding machines and the modern car is a by product of years and years of adaptation and re-invention.
