Where once Tomb Raider led the field, now it merely rides with the pack, offering nudges of modest invention and improvement, but little to truly inspire and amaze.
WHEN Guglielmo Marconi was granted patents on his "wireless telegraph" in 1897, the future of his invention looked modest.
Magritte's modest contribution to Surrealist invention here lies in the seaside view set on an easel inside a room.
BUILDING societies, a Victorian invention to let modest folk save money to buy a home, once seemed as safe as the proverbial houses.
And while Bogányi is proud of his invention, he's modest in the extreme about what it heralds, being cautious about allowing Hungary's greatest pianists – Zoltan Kocsis, Andras Schiff, say – to play the instrument until he's completely happy with it.
The difference between the offshoots of those big inventions is probably more modest than we think too.
As far as I'm concerned, the greatest human invention is indoors, however modest it might be.
They won fame;and a modest fortune, too: They commercialized their invention as the Univac and sold out to Remington Rand, which for a time was ahead of IBM in the computer business (its remnants are now part of Unisys).
But at the risk of seeming unpatriotic about something whose Stateside success we're all supposed to be cheering to the echo, it's actually pretty modest fare, with nothing like the style and invention of the Toy Story films.
There are other inventions, devices and models lying around his modest suburban house, but you are most likely to end up in the garage where he parks his 1971 Ford Mustang, which has gone more than 600,000 miles and counting.
