用过时的技术横向思考
193 在闭关锁国的两百年间:有关任天堂历史的几个资料特别重要:F. Gorges with I. Yamazaki, The History of Nintendo, vol. 1, 1889—1980 ( Triel-sur-Seine: Pix’N Love, 2010). F. Gorges with I. Yamazaki, The History of Nintendo, vol. 2, 1980—1991 (Triel-sur-Seine: Pix’N Love, 2012); E. Voskuil, Before Mario: The Fantastic Toys from the Video Game Giant’s Early Days (Châtillon: Omaké Books, 2014); J. Parish, Game Boy World 1989 (Norfolk, VA: CreateSpace, 2016); D. Sheff, Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered the World (New York: Vintage, 2011).
194 “反正我不会离开京都”:有关横井军平引语的来源说明,请参见第194页的脚注。
195 “雪在阳光下融化”:Gorges with Yamazaki, The History of Nintendo, vol. 2, 1980—1991.
195 “横向思考”:E. de Bono, Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step (New York: HarperCollins, 2010).
197 小心翼翼地在屏幕上凸印了几百个点:横井的专利往往很简单,是发明史上的宝库。这项专利(美国4398804号)和其他专利可以在谷歌专利上找到。
199 1.187亿台:B. Edwards, “Happy 20th b-day, Game Boy,” Ars Technica, April 21, 2009.
199—200 “这种理念很难被任天堂理解”;“这是一个雪人”;“愁容惨淡”:shmuplations.com (translation), “Console Gaming Then and Now: A Fascinating 1997 Interview with Nintendo’s Legendary Gunpei Yokoi,” techspot.com, July 10, 2015.
200 “蜡烛问题”:有关更好的说明,请参见D. Pink, Drive (New York: Riverhead, 2011).
201 “横井军平的强项不在电子这方面”:摘自冈田智在《马里奥之前》(Before Mario)一书的前言。
201 “设计和界面”:IGN staff, “Okada on the Game Boy Advance,” IGN .com, Sep. 13, 2000.
201 “如果不怕被误解”:M. Kodama, Knowledge Integration Dynamics (Singapore: World Scientific): 211.
202 “只是用一种别样的方式在创新”:C. Christensen and S. C. Anthony, “What Should Sony Do Next?,” Forbes, August 1, 2007, online ed.
203 钻研细节的青蛙,也需要富有远见的鸟:F. Dyson, “Bird and Frogs,” Notices of the American Mathematical Society 56, no. 2 (2009): 212—23. (戴森可能是一只数学青蛙,但他也是一名优秀的作家。)
203 多层光学薄膜:M. F. Weber et al., “Giant Birefringent Optics in Multilayer Polymer Mirrors,” Science 287 (2000): 2451—56; and R. F. Service, “Mirror Film Is the Fairest of Them All,” Science 287 (2000): 2387—89.
204 大蓝闪蝶:R. Ahmed et al., “Morpho Butterfly-Inspired Optical Diffraction, Diffusion, and Bio-chemical Sensing,” RSC Advances 8 (2018): 27111—18.
204 “它其实天天都出现在你面前”:Ouderkirk’s talk at TEDxHHL, October 14, 2016.
206 准备去了解3M公司的发明家们:W. F. Boh, R. Evaristo, and A. Ouderkirk, “Balancing Breadth and Depth of Expertise for Innovation: A 3M Story,” Research Policy 43 (2013): 349—66.
207 “没有人告诉过我”:Ouderkirk’s talk at TEDxHHL, October 14, 2016.
208 仅艾奥瓦州就有1000多家剧院:G. D. Glenn and R. L. Poole, The Opera Houses of Iowa (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993). 有关这一现象的详实的讨论,请参见:R. H. Frank, Luxury Fever (New York: The Free Press, 1999), ch. 3.
208 研发投入与绩效:B. Jaruzelski et al., “Proven Paths to Innovation Success,” Strategy+ Business, winter 2014, issue 77 preprint.
210 他们分析了过去十五年的技术专利:E. Melero and N. Palomeras, “The Renaissance Man Is Not Dead! The Role of Generalists in Teams of Inventors,” Research Policy 44 (2015): 154—67.
211 漫画书:A. Taylor and H. R. Greve, “Superman or the Fantastic Four? Knowledge Combination and Experience in Innovative Teams,” Academy of Management Journal 49, no. 4 (2006): 723—40.
211 魏特汉其实操纵或编造了部分研究:C. L. Tilley, “Seducing the Innocent: Fredric Wertham and the Falsifications That Helped Condemn Comics,” Information and Culture 47, no. 4 (2012): 383-413.
213 高度专业化的外科医生……出色地完成手术:M. Maruthappu et al., “The Influence of Volume and Experience on Individual Surgical Performance: A Systematic Review,” Annals of Surgery 261, no. 4 (2015): 642—47; N. R. Sahni et al., “Surgeon Specialization and Operative Mortality in the United States: Retrospective Analysis,” BMJ 354 (2016): i3571; A. Kurmann et al., “Impact of Team Familiarity in the Operating Room on Surgical Complications,” World Journal of Surgery 38, no. 12 (2014): 3047—52; M. Maruthappu, “The Impact of Team Familiarity and Surgical Experience on Operative Efficiency,” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 109, no. 4 (2016): 147—53.
213 分析了大型飞行事故的数据库:“A Review of Flightcrew-Involved Major Accidents of U.S. Air Carriers, 1978 Through 1990,” National Transportation Safety Board, Safety Study NTSB/SS-94/01, 1994.
214 犹他大学教授艾比·格里芬:A. Griffin, R. L. Price, and B. Vojak, Serial Innovators: How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms (Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 2012 [Kindle ebook]).
214 “算是一个专业的局外人”:D. K. Simonton, Origins of Genius (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).
214 “我可不想在这上面花更多时间了”:H. E. Gruber, Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981).
215 他至少有231位科学方面的笔友;种子实验:T. Veak, “Exploring Darwin’s Correspondence,” Archives of Natural History 30, no. 1 (2003): 118—38.
215 “令人困惑的混合体”:H. E. Gruber, “The Evolving Systems Approach to Creative Work,” Creativity Research Journal 1, no.1 (1988): 27—51.
216 “我的大脑里同时开着很多的应用程序”:R. Mead, “All About the Hamiltons,” The New Yorker, February. 9, 2015.