Innovation Thrives On Reinventing And Reusing The Old
Ideas are often similarly repurposed along the way.
Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web as a tool for scholars, but in the course of time, it became a network for shopping, social networking and pornography, among other things.
Johannes Gutenberg found an innovative use for a 1000-year-old invention: the wine screw press used to squeeze the juice out of grapes. Using this ancient technology and his knowledge of metallurgy, Gutenberg created the world’s first printing press.
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