Why Progress Doesn’t Begin or End With Innovation
The Virtuous Cycle We Broke and Need to Repair
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6 min readJan 11, 2018
There’s a grand myth that needs puncturing today. It goes like this: human progress depends on innovation, and only innovation. Now, before us, we have a spectacular, ironic, existence proof that such a belief is altogether too simple. America is one of the world’s most innovative societies. iPhones…