How easy or difficult would it be for a competitor to "design around" or find another method to replicate the function of your invention?
That these localized pledges resulted from Trump's blundering into decentralization on an international scale is a function of Gumpian invention.
People invent tools to reduce toil, enable otherwise impossible production, create new highly automated industries, and significantly change the way in which products and services are produced from labor intensive to capital intensive -- the core function of technological invention.
In imagining a huge, virtually infinite wordstream accessed by search engines and populated by teeming, promiscuous word snippets stripped of credited authorship, are we not depriving the written word of its old-fashioned function of, through such inventions as the written alphabet and the printing press, communication from one person to another — of, in short, accountability and intimacy?
The surprising success Intellectual Ventures has had over the past 10 years convinces me that, like software, the business of invention would function better if it were separated from manufacturing and developed on its own by a strong capital market that funded and monetized inventions.
The gadid AFGP trait is relevant not only to the biology and culturing potential of the cod species, but as an evolutionary innovation, has broad relevance in the pursuit of understanding molecular mechanisms of invention of new gene and function.
From South Africa, then, Galgut has a candid, vexing, but ultimately acceptable answer to Claire Armitstead's tweet: the events in In a Strange Room happened, but the book is not predicated on facts, it's predicated on truth, which is a function of art and art's inventions.
What was the function of early Asian pottery, which predates the invention of agriculture by about 10,000 years?
The results of an analysis can be anything from a colourful visualisation of how an organisation functions to the invention of a brand new service with a competitive advantage.
Desire is always a kind of invention.
