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created 'science and technology' category and rearranged and added some examples
*letters to the editor
*letters to the editor
*the design of Vietnam War Memorial (competition by a college student, featuring ordinary soldiers)
*the design of Vietnam War Memorial (competition by a college student, featuring ordinary soldiers)
*the design of the St. Louis Arch (competition won by an unknown architect, featuring openness)
*the design of the St. Louis Arch (competition won by an unknown architect, featuring openness)
*an obscure, unsuccessful author, Herman Melville, wrote the greatest novel in English literature, ''Moby-Dick''
*an obscure, unsuccessful author, Herman Melville, wrote the greatest novel in English literature, ''Moby-Dick''
*an unknown and possibly uneducated playwright, William Shakespeare, produced the greatest plays ever
*an unknown and possibly uneducated playwright, William Shakespeare, produced the greatest plays ever
Musical examples of the "best of the public" include:
Musical examples of the "best of the public" include:
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:(add more)
Examples from science and technology:
*the [[Open source|open source]] movement and its development of the [[Linux]] operating system
*the development of a heavier-than-air, fixed wing aircraft by the [[Wright brothers]], despite opposition and mockery by aviation "experts."
*[[Henry Ford]]'s mass-production techniques, which turned automobiles from a curiosity into the backbone of American industry despite Ford's lack of formal education.
*the investigation of the [[Challenger Disaster]] by maverick physicist [[Richard Feynman]]
*the solution to the greatest unsolved problem of our time, Poincare's conjecture (see below)
*[[Evariste Galois]], an unknown teenager, developed [[group theory]] and it took the mathematical experts a century to appreciate it
*[[Bill Gates]] and [[Steve Jobs]] both chose to eschew the academic confines of college and instead implemented their own ideas in computer software and hardware, eventually creating multi-billion dollar companies.
== Obstacles Created by Experts ==
== Obstacles Created by Experts ==