> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Geoff Mulgan > Reference:: Mulgan, Geoff. 2015. __The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism’s Future - Updated Edition__. Princeton University Press. > Date:: 2015 > Tags:: #warp/book > WeftLinks:: [[Scientific value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - There is craft in laboratory and other scientific work]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary Technology requires the "deep craft" of tinkerers as much as the bright ideas of inventors. > Advanced technology doesn’t issue solely from knowledge that is widely available, but rather from deep craft: the subtle, often tacit understanding of how things work and how they work together. Tinkerers and tweakers play as big a role as inventors.30 This deep craft tends to cluster in places, in organizations, and in networks. > 30. This is the big message from Ralf Meisenzahl and Joel Mokyr’s work on the industrial revolution, where tweakers and tinkerers like Richard Roberts in Manchester turned promising inventions like the spinning mule into powerfully effective ones.