[3] A highly reclusive biochemist named Kidder produces inventions that transform human life, bringing improvements across several fields of science and engineering.
His bank takes a hold of all those aspects, specifically a man named Conant, who is the only one allowed to contact Kidder's island.
He tries to expand the size of the project, hoping to use a Neoteric design for a new source of power that will be used all around the world, making him incredibly rich.
[2] The Neoterics make an illustrative reappearance in the 2008 management book Groundswell, developed by employees at Forrester Research: Neoterics are said to "outpace any human research lab since they try, fail, and adapt so much more quickly than ordinary slow-paced humans", and are thus presented as "apt metaphor for the current state of the Internet", where Web 2.0 technologies and the many people involved generate similarly "rapid prototyping, failure, and adaptation.
Science fiction author Gene Wolfe wrote, "The first [sf] story I read was 'Microcosmic God' by Theodore Sturgeon.