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"predictability" is only a function of your memory capacity and/or knowledge. To a scientist/saint who has done a lifetime of study/penance on the past, present and future, every invention is predictable. To a goldfish with 5-second memory, every sunrise, why every breath, is a discovery. Look at it another way. A scientist 'discovers' the atom. He didn't 'invent' it, right? Now, how did he discover it ? Using a micr…
I wonder if there are languages where this question doesn't make much sense, because, say, both invention and discovery translate to the same word just meaning "creation".
Tomorrow I can come up with a new word called 'oogabookga' which means invention/discovery/creation, and then make enough people accept it so it makes it into the dictionary, and then 20 years later, 2 other folks like us will argue about the semantics between oogabookga and invention and discovery.
That's exactly what happened with invention/discovery 20 (or 200) years ago, and we are those 2 people now.