Everything around us started as an idea: the airplane, the automobile, the computer chip, the chocolate chip…and the bicycle. But those ideas didn’t come to fruition overnight. They evolved. The Wright Brothers went through a lot of trial and error in their efforts to emulate the birds. Long before the microchip Turing was soldering and spluttering about how to solve the Enigma and the chocolate chip evolved from an even bigger idea to extract cacao from plants. They all started from a simple thing seen every day – the birds in the sky, the vacuum tube and the cacao trees –and…