So instead of trying to engineer serendipity itself, we can try to engineer the conditions for experiencing serendipity.
What is lost, some say, is the experience of serendipity and the delight in finding things that you would not naturally seek out.
His advice: "One should never hesitate to tackle a new unusual project because you're unfamiliar with it". He hopes that future Levin Fellows will also have the experience of serendipity that he encountered at Woods Hole more than five decades ago and shaped an important component of his life's work.
By getting closer to the experience of serendipity in computing and farther away from predictability, the easier it will become for the human mind to increase its understanding of complex systems.
Finally, Dr Birgit Draeger, a German phytochemist, experienced scientific serendipity in a most unusual form.
These episodes became legendary among drivers who took breaks with Mr. Diamond and they began using his name to refer to moments when other drivers experienced similar serendipity.
10 58 — These new apps will focus on "Frictionless Experiences," "Realtime serendipity" and "Finding patterns".
11 24 — "The Open Graph, a completely new way to discover things through your friends, through, Frictionless experiences, Realtime serendipity and Finding patterns," Zuck closes his talk with a video.
"The thrill of the flea market is that it is a real serendipity experience," said Diane Heavens, who with her husband, Don Heavens, own the property and operate the Saturday flea market (during the week it's a driving range for golfers).
To be fair, Coggeshell had some experience, and a little serendipity, working for him.
And so, that moment of serendipity I experienced on the steps of the Shanghai Museum wasn't so astonishing after all, for Leslie and I, set up by her cousin, represent the traveler's equivalent of the arranged marriage.
