Fwd - Natural History of a New Idea April 21, 2011
Another of those items that encourage me to feel "Good - I will keep sticking with my vision of how I'm developing Dadamac, even though it doesn't seem to make much sense when I try to explain it to most other people"
The notion that ideas have lifecycles has many antecedents. Various people get credit with first articulating it. Here is my version:
The Natural History of a New Idea:
1) Outright wacko.
"This is worthless nonsense"
2) Odd but unproven.
"This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view."
3) True but trivial.
"This may be correct, but it is quite unimportant."
4) Obvious.
"What's new? This is what we've said all along."
Apply to your favorite example.
I've seen this abbreviated to: "Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. Obvious." But I think it's ( more https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MtGuH70WVonXbSvaVNkqQtv3KCWYdBWxo49K9Ug_0Rs/edit?hl=en_GB# )