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What Remains After Success

Concept

Distributed Consequence

A discovery can leave its originator and continue through research networks, industrial systems, manufacturing, devices, and users.

Does a network keep a consequence after it no longer needs the person who started it?

Definition

What it means

A consequence that continues across a network after its originator is no longer present or required. Cause and present use remain connected, even when no direct relation remains between the discoverer and the current user.

Distinction

Work is not grammar

ORIGIN ≠ CURRENT USE

Originator

A researcher, a paper, a laboratory. The point from which a pathway began.

Distributed Consequence

The same consequence continuing as a property of the network after the originator is no longer required.

Observed Cases

Observed cases

Cases are assigned a remainsType from data. This is not a catalog of the dead.

No cases recorded yet.

At what point does a person's discovery stop belonging to a person and become a property of the network?