Comment on So you "just need a hacker", huh?parentComments−astrec18yPerhaps better stated that a lot of products did not identify their eventual use beforehand. For your list the seed product had some utility:* adhesive gives rise to postit * rubber alternative gives rise to silly putty * pedagogic device gives rise to game, kernel−chaostheory18y"the seed product had some utility"for some of the seed products their makers intended for them to have utility, but they didn't - that's why they were initial failures...
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Perhaps better stated that a lot of products did not identify their eventual use beforehand. For your list the seed product had some utility:
* adhesive gives rise to postit * rubber alternative gives rise to silly putty * pedagogic device gives rise to game, kernel
"the seed product had some utility"
for some of the seed products their makers intended for them to have utility, but they didn't - that's why they were initial failures...