Panio Gianopoulous over at the Next Big Idea Club asked McWhirter and Elinson to present five key insights from American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15. What did they discover?
1. True innovators are hyper-focused on specific problems and see them in ways that conventional thinking hasn’t.
2. Inventors are often only fixated on the problems before them, not the long-term consequences of their inventions.
3. Ideas are cheap, creation is hard.
4. The moral responsibility of inventors is complicated.
5. Inventions inherently have unintended consequences.
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