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Innovation, Schminnovation – Welcome to the Boring Age

paul.kedrosky.com » 2010 » March » 11th » Innovation, Schminnovation – Welcome to the Boring Age

We flatter ourselves by imagining that we live in an age of endless invention and innovation. We don’t. By almost any reasonable measure the inventions of the last few decades pale against the great inventions of the past, and we rely so heavily on mostly unchanged hundred-year-old doodads that we would, as a species, be embarrassed, were we broadly capable of said introspective emotion. Here is … Continue Reading »

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