We Make the Future by Feeling Our Way
How Do We Move Forward When We Can’t Eliminate Uncertainty? Reviewing Margaret Heffernan’s ‘Uncharted.’
A scientist at 3M was researching sticky stuff. “We wanted to develop bigger, stronger, tougher adhesives,” Spencer Silver said later of his work. Instead, he accidentally produced a substance that only lightly adhered to surfaces.
Silver reported his discovery, but the organization saw no use for it—until, that is, another colleague, Art Fry, got sick o…
