The downside, feminism-wise, is that Morris thinks that men, because of their natural risk-taking, will always be better inventors and artists.
Tesla's alternating current (AC) was widely adopted over Edison's direct current (DC), but Tesla never made significant money from this success and Edison remained the better-known inventor for most of the 20th century.
Indeed, no other investigator knows those tools better than the inventor.
Or, what if adversarial groups of humans develop competing A.I. systems that get along no better than their inventors do?
And because it is easy to determine who filed a patent first, the new system would better protect small inventors from challenges by corporations with deep pockets, reducing the chance of costly litigation.
Thus, what better time for inventor-ship and entrepreneurship than when things are in breakdown, when it's clear that "the old ways" are not working?
Sheraton was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker, but he became better known as an inventor, artist, mystic, and religious controversialist.
It is easy to regard René Magritte as a much better image-maker and inventor of visual and verbal conundrums than he was a painter.
Sir Tim betters-Lee - better known as the inventor of the world wide web - also originated the idea of the semantic web, which he calls "the web of data".
An example of the Aspen center's ability to percolate ideas was on display one recent day in the form of Dr. Paul Ginsparg, a string theorist from Los Alamos National Laboratory who is better known as the inventor and proprietor of the Web site on which physicists post and read their papers.
