Smart recombinations are all around us. Pandora, for example, is a combination of radio station and search engine; it also takes the biological model of genetic coding and transfers it to the domain of music (a smart recombination often takes ideas or influences from separate domains and mashes them together). In today’s tech world, many of the most successful products—Apple’s iPhone being just one notable example—are hybrids, melding functions and features in new ways.
