2003-06-26

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Ten Inventions That Will Change Your World "SOME SAY PROGRESS is now the province of groups, and the days of the lone inventor are over. Maybe so. But inventors will never disappear. “The initial flash of an idea is often an individual idea,” says Francis S. Collins, head of the National Human Genome Research Institute and World Economic Forum fellow. “So brilliant, creative people are crucial.” Since the dot-com bust, such types have continued to ply their craft in labs and basements, producing ideas that seem obscure, even loopy, until a closer look reveals their world-shifting import."