There are many of those kinds of events in the wild, even nature itself relies on serendipity to push evolution forward. So my finding on the flea market was “serendipitous discovery”: an accidental, unplanned event with lucky outcome. Many scientific discoveries were made by accident: Penicillin, X-Rays, Radioactivity, Atomic nucleus, Plastic, Dynamite, Anaesthesia, The Coordinate System… (II) Unpopular Opinion: Current technology does not embrace serendipity
Serendipity is a strong fertiliser and a catalyst for new ideas: Nearly half of all scientific discoveries are accidental, a research finds. It means “ A happy accident exploited by a “sagacious” or clever person.” Apparently, there were many lucky discoveries back in the day, much enough for the new word - and the whole concept - to be invented. With the addition of a new battery, I am using this decade-old beast as my daily driver - and typing this story today.Īlmost at the same time as this happy accident, while reading an interesting book about ideas, I learned about a strange word: Serendipity. Despite this, I could not resist but bought it: it was the best $50 that I had spent in my life. Alas, it was not powering up, and I haven’t had a way to test it. On a recent visit to that “holy” place, I found a laptop that looked new. I suppose most of the people coming to this place do the same: they expect a surprise and almost nothing else. Whenever I go there, I usually don’t look for anything specifically I am just opening myself to chance, to discovery by luck.
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