# Use of innovations often precedes understanding

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Vaccination exemplifies a common feature of innovation: that use often precedes understanding.

While this can sometimes happen, it is just as often the case that invention is the parent of science: techniques and processes are developed that work, but the understanding of them comes later. Steam engines led to the understanding of thermodynamics, not the other way round. Powered flight preceded almost all aerodynamics. Animal and plant breeding preceded genetics. Pigeon fancying laid the groundwork for Darwin's understanding of natural selection. Metalworking helped give birth to chemistry. None of the pioneers of vaccination had the foggiest idea how or why it worked. Understanding of the mode of action of antibiotics came long after they were in practical use.

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Cognitive revolution were inspired by digital computers
- I found this to be an interesting phenomenon as our mind (The mind) is something that our ancestors have been using for a long time, but we don't really understand it, until psychologists were inspired by how digital computer works, which are things that we invent later. This seemed to have a similar theme to Use of innovations often precedes understanding.
Fosbury flop was discovered out of trial and errors
- Use of innovations often precedes understanding. The Fosbury flop was not designed or came out of an analysis. Today, there are many explanation of why the Fosbury flop works such as how it allows our body to lower our centre of mass when our body is bent backwards.
Continuous Delivery precedes DORA
- Another example of how the Use of innovations often precedes understanding.
§What's top of mind
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