The endorsement of immediate melody at the expense of complex invention, of practical ballroom danceability as the touchstone and popular singability as the sine qua non of musical virtue, leads inevitably to an insult.
The W8 engine is a stunningly complex piece of machinery, and the outgrowth of a doubly complex invention, the W16.
Perhaps it's not surprising that the few still-thriving forms (pre-eminently, of course, the sonnet) originate from Southern Europe and that the complex inventions of our nearest neighbours in Wales and Ireland never wholly made the transition - with the exception of the limerick, perhaps (though whether this jolly little tumbrel actually originated in Limerick is far from certain).
At the same time we find that the prior art search of complex inventions is not outsourced.
Of course, it is partly because we live in an age of complex inventions worked out by many people in concert, most often at big companies.
"The rotor [disc] is one of the most complex inventions ever completed in Silicon Valley," says Stroy. "It required analytical chemistry, electronics, photonics, surface plastic molding, surface property issues".
The rapid appearance (over evolutionary time) of the cognitive skills and complex inventions of modern humans has been attributed to "cumulative cultural evolution" (CCE), the accumulation of knowledge and skills over generations.
As with most 3D-printing devices, the Start requires a bit of patience when building from scratch given the new eco-plastic material, but the company has introduced a line of cool little stencils called DoodleBlocks that are included with the "Super Mega Pack" so that young builders can 3D-print complex inventions from their new device.
We have a tendency to lionize mankind's mind-bogglingly complex inventions.
Such complex evolutionary inventions are at the center of the Intelligent Design critique of neo-Darwinian explanations, which are based exclusively on random genetic accidents and natural selection.
With the rise of the West, Landes and other scholars say, the Islamic world developed an inferiority complex, rejecting European inventions such as the printing press and retreating into scholasticism.
