The article, Forget About the Mythical Lone Inventor in the Garage, discusses how people nowadays think brilliant inventors as genius working alone in their garages. However, the truth is that although the initial idea might came from a single individual, the further works require a team of brilliant experts with advanced tools within a developed laboratory. The author takes the development of works of Edison and also William Hewlett and David Packard, who were the founders of Silicon Valley, as examples. The author also mentioned how laboratories are important to the modern day technology development by taking AT&T pulling out its basic researches as a example.
A good research laboratories with brilliant experts and advanced tools are much more efficient than lone inventors working individually. It provides more perspectives for the original idea with more persistence, thoughts and efficiency. Taking researches in national laboratories are a effective way to significantly accelerate the development of new materials, technologies, and processes, which will result in the larger expansion of the national economy.
It is important to let nowadays' American people to understand the significance of researches laboratories instead imaging inventors as self-working geniuses. Because most breakthrough innovations are made in laboratories instead of garages and dorm rooms. Too much medias, even big and serious ones like New York Times, Iron Man movie, are spreading a message of heroic lone inventors that are changing the way American thinking of laboratories and finally undermine its abilities.
The Iron Man movie, which is the movie about a rich genius creating a advanced iron outfit for himself to save the world, serves as a great example for nowadays' medias which are sending wrong messages to people and change the way they think in a negative way. It advertises the way of "single-combat warriors working feverishly in a basement or some other threadbare den of solitude" as a inventor, but undermining the truth that research laboratories are much more efficient ways to do so.
A good research laboratories with brilliant experts and advanced tools are much more efficient than lone inventors working individually. It provides more perspectives for the original idea with more persistence, thoughts and efficiency. Taking researches in national laboratories are a effective way to significantly accelerate the development of new materials, technologies, and processes, which will result in the larger expansion of the national economy.
It is important to let nowadays' American people to understand the significance of researches laboratories instead imaging inventors as self-working geniuses. Because most breakthrough innovations are made in laboratories instead of garages and dorm rooms. Too much medias, even big and serious ones like New York Times, Iron Man movie, are spreading a message of heroic lone inventors that are changing the way American thinking of laboratories and finally undermine its abilities.
The Iron Man movie, which is the movie about a rich genius creating a advanced iron outfit for himself to save the world, serves as a great example for nowadays' medias which are sending wrong messages to people and change the way they think in a negative way. It advertises the way of "single-combat warriors working feverishly in a basement or some other threadbare den of solitude" as a inventor, but undermining the truth that research laboratories are much more efficient ways to do so.