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Re: American Inventor reality TV show
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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
The show will be entertaining, but I think it falls into the trap of thinking that lone inventors are some sort of american icon
very few 'inventors' make any money off their ideas. The wealth of knowledge and technology advances we have seen in the last 100+ years has mostly come from people who got a formal education and worked together with a team of other people, very often under the wing of a corporation or university.
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Bah..... We aren't talking about rocket science here. We are talking about simple ideas that are realitively unique and useful. In fact I was reading about lone inventors in The Boston Globe and how they are being utilized in supporting research and development of major companies. Companies go around and find inventors whose ideas are worth sending to corporations. Also, this concept is quite old in terms of invention competitions. Hammacher Schlemmer has had an invention competition since 1994. Oddly enough they didn't have one this year.
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