Do software-generated "connections" really generate inspiration?

Posted by Cassius
Oct 25, 2007 at 04:42 PM

I asked this before in another topic, but there was no response.

Some have said that connections generated by software (such as wiki) have resulted in the user developing new inspirations. [Dump the info in, let the software make connections, look at those connections, and eureka! an inspiration.]

Have any of you actually had this happen. Can you give a real-world example?

Certainly we all have had the experience of reading something or hearing something which, along with our previous thoughts, resulted in an inspiration. But has anyone really had an inspiration as a result of a software-generated connection?

-c