how do engineers create new machines that couldn’t be done before? How do they discover or come up with new technologies?
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The short answer- We really don’t.
What seems like a giant leap is actually a collection of a lot of small steps by many different people taken towards a common goal.
99% of the work is the integration of many different ideas, not the ideas themselves. We don’t “come up” with new technology as much as we assemble it out of the amalgamation of small ideas we and the team we work with have picked up along the way.
Every once in a while you get a cool “A Ha!” moment, but those are a small cherry on top of a big Sundae.
Most of the cutting edge ideas come from academia and R&D. Our job is mostly to put them to good use.
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