The lone inventor myth is really good at selling T-shirts but it’s a poor understanding of history.
In discussing the wildly popular Tesla comic strip that inspired this Tesla vs. Edison rap, Paleofuture’s Matt Novak corroborates the idea that all innovation builds on what came before, contrary to the Eureka! myth of genius, and creativity is a remix.
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