But I’m not at all confident that I would have made the initial connection without the help of the software. The idea was a true collaboration, two very different kinds of intelligence playing off one another, one carbon-based, the other silicon. When I’d first captured that quote about calcium and bone structure, I’d had no idea that it would ultimately connect to the history of London’s sewage system (or to a book about innovation). But there was something about that concept that intrigued me enough to store it in the database. It lingered there for years in the software’s primordial soup, a
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