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As being a technology pioneer at MIT as the first choice of three successful start-ups, Kevin Ashton experienced firsthand the all-consuming challenge of fabricating something new. Now, in a tour-de-force narrative twenty years in the making, Ashton leads us on the voyage through humanity's very best creations to discover the surprising truth behind who creates and how they certainly it. Through the crystallographer's laboratory where the secrets of DNA were first discovered by a long forgotten woman, to the electromagnetic chamber where the stealth bomber was created on the twenty-five-cent gamble, to the Ohio bi-cycle shop where the Wright brothers set out to "fly a horses"; Ashton showcases the apparently unremarkable individuals, progressive steps, multiple failures, and countless ordinary and usually uncredited functions that lead to your most incredible breakthroughs. Designers, he shows, apply in particular ways the each day, ordinary thinking of which we all have been capable, taking a large number of small steps and employed in an countless loop of problem and solution. He examines why innovators meet amount of resistance and how they triumph over it, why most organizations stifle creative people, and the way the most creative organizations work. Sketching on samples from art, technology, business, and technology, from Mozart to the Muppets, Archimedes to Apple, Kandinsky to a can of Coke, How to Take a flight a Horse is a separate and immensely rewarding exploration of how "new" comes to be.
