For now, infrared, Wi-Fi and an ancient invention called wire make Bluetooth an avoidable ache.

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We want to make it easier to start a business or patent an invention.

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Laying there in a sweat, late at night, we no longer have to dream up some new invention of an idea in order to start our businesses or make it big.

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Irving John Good famously described the development of an ultraintelligent machine as the "last invention that man need ever make, " for after that, humanity would cede innovation and technological development to its smarter progeny.

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Whatever one wants to make of IV, the fact is that IV is the pioneer in creating an invention market and like all pioneering efforts, the path is never a straight line or easy.

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Rather than a history of inventions, Mr Rosen's book is a study of invention itself, the process of tinkering with an existing mechanism to make it better.

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