Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as Prozac were in a sense a chance discovery, and the latest breakthroughs have also had an element of serendipity about them, the result of academic rather than industry experimentation.
Arthur S. Brisbane: What I like about the most e-mailed function on the Web site is that it introduces the element of serendipity into a reader's experience.
It's ironic, but if you genuinely want a broader discourse online than an echo chamber, you probably have to make more effort to use traditional media – which have always had an element of serendipity increasingly absent from everyday net use.
Not only do the black-costumed dancers become an expressive, even turbulent, embodiment of this liberated style, but an extra element of serendipity is added by the banners of white rice paper that descend onto the stage, with trails of black ink allowed to drip down them, seeping and feathering into their own free-form patterns.
Thanks to its data-driven technology, the app serves results on restaurants that you would probably like (based on social signals and your input), as well as provides an element of serendipity with personalized results.
[ 39] There was also often an element of serendipity in the process, with a chance coming together of key factors to create or impede change.
In reality, the elements of discovery, serendipity, and search that dovetail seamlessly from the Quora product have captured the imagination of its users (myself included) and have placed the company in a rare, enviable position.
On the plus side here, the human element of editorial serendipity (someone making decisions on what content to deliver) provides an effective flexibility of interest.
