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They know everything that everybody else already knows and they’re probably going to come up with the same thoughts. When you go deep on anything, you start to find nuances that other people don’t know. And it’s those nuances that really start to help you open black boxes and say, “Wait a second, can we think about it this way?”
For example, it turns out that if you use material other than silicon crystals you can completely change the behavior of a computer chip, but we don’t open that black box anymore because we’re so stuck on the engineering of chips. Or have you ever thought about connecting tissue specialists with prosthetics robotics? There’s a kind of alchemy that goes on.
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- Joi Ito via Wired
Joi is the new director of MIT Media Lab. I thought this was an elegant way to describe the Strength of Weak Ties.
