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The Pinball Effect

by James Burke

1997 352 pages eng

History
Inventions, history Science, popular works Science, history Inventions History

The pinball effect is a metaphor of the seemingly random routes a pinball traces. Human knowledge will unadvertedly unleash unexpected consecuences: new inventions or discoveries now possible because someone shared an idea.

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