His thinking is inspired by Charles Darwin's 1871 book "The Descent of Man," which explains why some animals have features whose purpose is aesthetic, rather than practical.
The earliest research into thinking machines was inspired by a confluence of ideas that became prevalent in the late 30s, 40s and early 50s.
Making such tiny features with precision would require photolithography, an expensive technology unsuitable for high-speed volume manufacturing of big batteries.The PARC researchers' solution, which would surely have impressed their free-thinking forebears, was inspired by striped toothpaste.
The things that we might want to say about my act of thinking (that it was inspired, or stupid, or what have you) can simply be reconstrued as predicates true or false of physical objects.
So, given McBride's interests, it's no surprise that with Burst, he was inspired by thinking about the neighborhood sports angle.
Hardy Morris: "The song was inspired while thinking about our (The United States) mistreatment of Native Americans and it then kind of morphed into a song about other wars and volatile times throughout history.
This approach was inspired by bionic thinking, and could help ameliorating the condition of millions of people suffering from hay fever world wide.
Moran told me that the project was inspired, in part, by "thinking about what could be considered unphotographable".
His father, a police inspector, was inspired by the reformist thinking of Syed Ahmed Khan.
Early on in my thinking about our mission, I travelled to India and was inspired by the humanity, spirit and values of the people".
