Format Web Page "Potter’s sample covered about 190 historically significant inventions from 1800 to 1970." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Exaptation Source title How Common Is Multiple Invention? Source authors Brian Potter Source year 2025 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "In Brian Potter’s framework, a high rate of multiple invention points toward technological progress being shaped by broad historical conditions and inventions appearing when conditions are right." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Exaptation Source title How Common Is Multiple Invention? Source authors Brian Potter Source year 2025 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "Docker was designed around the practical problem that shipping software to servers was difficult." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Exaptation Source title Docker: Nine Years YOUNG Source authors Scott Johnston Source year 2022 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Book / Offline paper "Git was created in 2005 after the Linux kernel community lost free use of BitKeeper." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Exaptation Source title A Short History of Git Source authors Scott Chacon, Ben Straub Source year 2014 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "Mockapetris introduced DNS as a distributed replacement for the centralized HOSTS.TXT mechanism as its size and update frequency approached practical limits." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Exaptation Source title DOMAIN NAMES - CONCEPTS and FACILITIES Source authors Paul Mockapetris Source year 1983 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "Prum and Brush describe feathers as being exapted for aerodynamic flight after feathers had already evolved for other purposes." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Exaptation Source title Dinosaur Feathers Came before Birds and Flight Source authors Richard O. Prum, Alan H. Brush Source year 2014 Confidence high Importance high
Format Online paper / PDF "Feathers evolved and diversified in non-avian theropod dinosaurs before the origin of birds and before the origin of flight." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Exaptation Source title The Evolutionary Origin And Diversification Of Feathers Source authors Richard O. Prum, Alan H. Brush Source year 2002 Confidence high Importance high
Format Book / Offline paper "Diamond presents many major inventions as products of curiosity or tinkering undertaken without an initial market demand." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Exaptation Source title Guns, Germs, and Steel - Chapter 13, Necessity's Mother Source authors Jared Diamond Source year 1997 Confidence high Importance high
Format Book / Offline paper "Jared Diamond argues that invention is often the mother of necessity, because uses and demand can emerge after an invention already exists." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Exaptation Source title Guns, Germs, and Steel - Chapter 13, Necessity's Mother Source authors Jared Diamond Source year 1997 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "SAGE was developed in response to the Cold War threat posed by Soviet nuclear weapons and long-range bombers." View Source Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY Exaptation Source title SAGE: Semi-Automatic Ground Environment Air Defense System Source authors MIT Lincoln Laboratory Source year 2026 Confidence high Importance high
