ABSTRACT

Over the past 10 years, we have acquired a unique insight and have cultivated a number of new meta-level principles, which we present here. The insight stems from an observation that virtually all great inventions and discoveries, exceptions notwithstanding, have been serendipitous in nature, where the inventor or discoverer had accidentally stumbled upon it, as if through pure chance. Examples include the discovery of penicillin, invention of the transistor, dynamite, and others.We also observe that great inventions and discoveries have been few and far in between and that we have merely played a passive role in the evolution of nature. Today, we stand at a unique crossroad in the history of human civilization. For the first time in history, we have the wherewithal to enable deliberate discoveries and inventions. All we need is the will. The enabler we refer to here is the computing engine, of which today’s digital discrete computer is one of the best known manifestation.