Unexploited Leonardo Ideas

It’s hard to discover where the frontier is

What are examples of technology being combined well?

DARPA is more ideas limited than money limited

# Adjacent Possible
Precisely thinking about the adjacent possible is hard. It is easy to miss the prerequisites on an innovation which put it in the adjacent-adjacent possible or farther. 
It may not be possible to know whether something is truly in the adjacent possible without trying to put it into the possible. Most AI predictions are bullshit.
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# Conversation with Kevin at Hello Tomorrow 8/11/2019
Tinder for technology
A* refocusing on mission driven orgs
A* is an economic org
Actively look for tech that can be combined 
Issue is talent 
Idea of a facility that startups can use to test prototypes might shoehorn
Kevin was in Boston Etc



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Innovation requires multiple heuretics

PARPA will address several failure points

# Many innovations are not valuable on their own but can be combined to be valuable
This could either be within the process of a larger organization or with other completely new things.
Examples: Touch keyboards are almost worthless without really good autocorrect
This is one of the places where corporate R&D may shine 
## Questions
[[What are examples of technology being combined well?]]
[[Innovations that are not valuable on their own but could be combined well to be valuable?]]
## Related
[[§Corporate R&D Constraints]]
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And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared

It’s rational to try something that failed in the past as long as you explicitly call out why you will succeed when they failed

Constraints on progress

Leonardo Ideas

Adam Marblestone Podcast 2020-03-31

Technology relaxes constraints and Technology enables exploration of the unknown are basis vectors

Relaxing constraints and exploring the unknown are helical

Technological Whitespace

Multidisciplinary teams are valuable in places where constraints have changed

Frontier technology relaxes constraints that have never been relaxed before

# Technology relaxes constraints
When technology relaxes [[Constraints on progress]]  that have brought someone below some assumed ability, [[Technology Solves Problems]]
When technology relaxes constraints on the baseline itself, [[Technology gives superpowers]] 
[[You can identify constraints analytically]] 
Technology relaxes constraints does not span innovation space but[[Technology relaxes constraints and Technology enables exploration of the unknown are basis vectors]].
[[Relaxing constraints and exploring the unknown are helical]].
There can't be a [[§Multidisciplinary Teams]] for every combination of constraints and solutions so you can't expect every relaxed constraint to be discovered and exploited in a purely bottom-up way. That discovery gap is what makes it important that [[You can identify constraints analytically]]  and team building necessary. 
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* [[Technology is the productization of new knowledge]]
* [[What are examples of technology being combined well?]]


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Technology relaxes constraints

Many innovations are not valuable on their own but can be combined to be valuable

# What are examples of technology being combined well?
* [[Conversation with Kevin at Hello Tomorrow 8/11/2019]]
* [[Technology relaxes constraints]]
* [[Adjacent Possible]]


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