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From Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs, the individual inventor is a hero in our popular imagination

Am I reading this incorrectly? Are they promoting the idea that Steve Jobs is an individual inventor?



He definitely wasn't. And more importantly, neither was Edison.


Patents with his name on it: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/24/technology/ste...

While he didn't invent all that stuff himself, it's not like he had nothing to do with any of it.


That's not what "individual" means. Both of then ran organizations of inventors.


I read that as promoting the opposite, that both Jobs & Edison did very well on the work of others.




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