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This essay gives a personal and possibly incomplete history of the way in which the simple idea of weak resonant wave interactions grew to find application to a variety of phenomena in several contexts. The development involved incremental steps by many people in the past twenty years, gaining simplicity with maturity. The final stage seems to be approaching when the limits of usefulness of the idea are beginning to become apparent.
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