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AYBABTME on Dec 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ten-year-old invents light-up crosswalks, IBM make...

    Over time people tend to get less creative with regards
    to big ideas due to self-limiting based on operating 
    within the confines of existing systems.

Is this your opinion, or are there research supporting this?

pretoriusB on Dec 23, 2012 [–]

Yes there is, and no, not everything needs to be explained with references and citations.

AYBABTME on Dec 24, 2012 | [–]

I have a different intuition and I'd like to know why I'm wrong, other than what she/he thinks.

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