Leonardo Ideas can be systematically identified

Treating Science Fiction as case studies from a future history

# Hype Mining
 You could start looking for Leonardo Ideas from potentially impactful ideas that *felt* like they were in the adjacent possible in the past and precisely identify what constraints prevented them from existing.  
This takes advantage of criteria #1 from the fact that [[Leonardo Ideas can be systematically identified]] (*Would be impactful if existed.*)  and is depending on past excitement both as an indicator of impact and that the idea might be in the adjacent possible. People get excited about things that feel possible. 

**Practically, this could involves**
- Digging through old issues of publications that capture [[Hype Cycles]] like Wired and Popular Science.
- Reading through old journals.
- Talking to industry experts
**Ideas to Dig Into**
[[Why don’t we have ground effect vehicles?]]

                        

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# Profiles of the Future
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Prophecy suffers from either failure of nerve of failures of imagination
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- [[Clarke’s First Law]]!
- [[Clarke’s Second Law]]
- [[Clarke’s Third Law]]

### Published
## Questions
- [[Why don’t we have ground effect vehicles?]]
## Thoughts
## Related

## Authors
- [[Arthur C. Clarke]]
## Link



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Profiles of the Future

# Why don’t we have ground effect vehicles?



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