[dredmorbius]

If you read up on research into innovation, you'll find that much of it does hinge on appropriating ideas from elsewhere. It's more like bacterial gene transfer than procaryote sexual reproduction, and very little like random point variations.

John Holland, W. Brian Arthur, and Doyne Farmer (all associated with the Santa Fe Institute) have done much interesting work. Farmer talks of Theodor Wright, and his studies of aircraft manufacturing improvements during WWII, though much of Farmer's discussion seems to borrow heavily from Wright's browther Sowell, a geneticist looking at genetic drift and fitness landscapes. Quincy Wright's study of war also seems apropos. Interesting family.

[kodfodrasz]

wow I can write a for loop for the frames of a film and call the google open sourced deep learning style transfer program.

INNOVATION!