RE: Innovators See Things Differently

Thanks, Terry.  You're suggesting another idea which is also important to understand: it is often difficult to predict the impact of innovative research.

In this case, the Google research scientists (I'm guessing) were focused primarily on the deep science of image recognition and categorization.  The "swirl" visualization was (likely) a secondary concern.  Yet, as you rightly point out, there are use cases where the swirl directly addresses a real business requirement.  This is a concrete example of why I so much liked the quote of may favorite fictional private detective, Darryl Zero "When you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very good."