CS875-1602C-02-Unit4-DB2

Cullen Bass

May 18, 2016

Colorado Technical University

Futuring and Innovation (CS875-1602C-02-Unit4-DB2)

Instructor Imad Al Saeed

In this paper, I will provide some example of discoveries from three types of the scenario such as Serendipity, Error, and Exaptation. I found that there was some great discovery such as Penicillin which proven to be a great medical discovery. Finally, I will give some personal discover from my childhood days. We were raised in a poor neighborhood so we had to make do.

Complete the following for this assignment:

•    Provide an innovation example for discoveries that are achieved through the following:

o    Serendipity

The discovery of Penicillin is the greatest discovery of man. In my opinion. The invention of penicillin saves so many lives. By the way, it was discovered in a case of dirty dishes. The medicine will be forever enshrined in scientific legend

o    Error

The discovery of the pacemaker was created from the wrong part pulling out of a box. It was in 1956 Wilson Greatbatch was trying to build a heart rhythm recording device at the University of Buffalo. There was a box of device or equipment. Wilson Greatbatch reaches into the box and pulls out a resistor, not of the right size. Once he plugged it into the circuit. There was a sound of the human heart.

o    Exaptation

The discovery of Plastic to me is a way of repurposing a product. How it was discovered was in the lab of Charles Goodyear. He combines rubber and sulfur on a stove, after sometimes cooking the it was discovered a durable material call vulcanization. Later call Plastic.

•    In your own words, what do these terms mean to you? Give an example of each term in your experience or that you have read about. Do not provide dictionary definitions.

•    Serendipity: 

This term reminds me of roller skates when I was little. We use a 2x4 piece of board and nail the skates to the board to make a skateboard. Or when we wanted to play basketball we nail a milk crate on the pole.

•    Errors:

This term reminds me of playing basketball cans. One day just bouncing the basketball around and bored. My friend starts shooting the ball at the can . We thought it was good then we continue to play.

•    Exaptation: 

This reminds me of getting a broomstick and breaking. We use it as a bat for baseball with a tennis ball.

Reference

Inc,2016

Retrived from http://www.inc.com/tim-donnelly/brilliant-failures/9-inventions-made-by-mistake.html