Rather, other technologies advance to the point where it is possible to invent something using them.
What does it feel like to invent something that becomes universal and invaluable and even taken for granted?
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The only way that is going to happen is for America to invent something new and big, and fast.
This is important because to invent something wholly new often requires enormous courage in the face of social pressure.
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"We run the band as if we're a Silicon Valley start-up trying to invent something, " says Moonalice leader Roger McNamee.
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On the one side we have those who invent something entirely new.
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In other words, the first inventor to file an application for an invention gets the patent, not the first person to invent something.
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Once you invent something, the road to making money from it is paved with a particularly tricky stone you have to be worried about: patents.
Cardoso told CNN he had always dreamed of being able to fly and decided to invent something that would enable him to do just that.
Is it better and more economically advantageous to invent something completely new, or take an existing invention and innovate on top of it by coming up with a commercially appealing product?
It was forged on stronger stuff, by bold men and women who dared to invent something new or improve something old -- who took big chances on big ideas, who believed that in America all things are possible.
"Young theorists especially would love to see supersymmetry go down the drain, because it means that the real thing is something they could invent - not something that was invented by the older generation, " he said.
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