http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/02/24/burt-rutans-new-space-race/ EthanZ's musings on Africa, media and international development Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/02/24/burt-rutans-new-space-race/comment-page-1/#comment-70020 …My heart’s in Accra » Burt Rutan on Breakthrough Innovation Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:50:22 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=402#comment-70020 [...] Rutan has an interesting argument - which he made in an earlier talk - that innovators are inspired as very young kids, perhaps between three and fourteen years old. In the four years between 1908 and 1912, there was an amazing burst of creativity in air design. The global population of pilots went from 12 to several thousand, with hundreds of new aircraft designs developed in 39 countries. Lots of innovators looked at the Wright Brothers and said, “I can do this - these are just bicycle mechanics from Dayton.” [...] [...] Rutan has an interesting argument – which he made in an earlier talk – that innovators are inspired as very young kids, perhaps between three and fourteen years old. In the four years between 1908 and 1912, there was an amazing burst of creativity in air design. The global population of pilots went from 12 to several thousand, with hundreds of new aircraft designs developed in 39 countries. Lots of innovators looked at the Wright Brothers and said, “I can do this – these are just bicycle mechanics from Dayton.” [...]

]]> http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/02/24/burt-rutans-new-space-race/comment-page-1/#comment-7791 big dog Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:02:48 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=402#comment-7791 By 22020, we'd better be doing 50,000,000 times what NASA is doing...as we'll have been working on it for 20,014 years. By 22020, we’d better be doing 50,000,000 times what NASA is doing…as we’ll have been working on it for 20,014 years.

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