Yeah, you think you invented that, don’t you? Inventons made before their time.

Apparently no one. While there used to be a channel that at one time did broadcast such programming, it quickly turned into a reality tv channel that focuses now on pregnant teens.

When I was working for IBM, they came up with what they were calling an innovative concept called “co-locating”, in which everybody who worked in a particular workgroup would actually work out of the same office, to the extent that actually worked IN THE OFFICE, rather than from home. Which is to say, the same situation as any office-oriented business prior to the internet.

They also put a lot of time and effort into developing the concept of a pooled resource team, in which everybody in the team knew how to do most of the work, so whoever had time free could work on any given project. Also known as the family farm, which predates recorded history.

I definitely thought up digital TV recording back in '84. When was the first digital video recorder made?

Geo. B. Selden patented an automobile deign in 1887.
Unfortunately, it didn’t work…however, that didn’t stop him from sueing people like Henry Ford.

I recall reading years ago about the discovery that the assembly line had actually been invented in ancient Rome; someone had devised a water powered one drawing on a nearby aqueduct. It just was never copied by anyone and remained a unique innovation.