he would inspire the efforts of one of our greatest inventors, alexander graham bell. and so it goes, down through edison's workshops, the space center, silicon valley, route 128 in massachusetts, which i'm sure you are familiar with, the microsoft lab and washington state, concentrations begun by government or corporate or individual initiatives where all sorts of intelligent people have created vital nodes of creation and commerce. the same can be said for detroit in the midwest in the first decades of the automobile industry. the mississippi delta during the evolution of the blues and jazz, chicago and the skyscraper began to rise, new york when america came into being, proximity matters. six key elements of invention, i am sure there are more, but the singular thing about american ingenuity is how many different ways we have invented grits, collaboration, education, government funding, immigration, innovation, hard work, obsession, persistence, irrational optimism, and the occasional earthshaking epiphany. it all works. hearing the redundancy to modern democracy. d