Blitzkrieg: How Britain Invented, Then Ignored It
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The Most Famous Unused Plan in History
JFC Fuller invented Blitzkrieg and the British army had wasted his idea. Xerox established Palo Alto Research Center or PARC in 1970, which developed the modern personal computer. In 1975, a 24-year-old engineer named Steve Sassen built the world's first digital camera that was to destroy Eastman Kodak. Sony launched one of the world’s first digital music players, the Memory Stick Walkman - but all they succeeded in doing was paving the way for Apple’s iPod. Why do some ideas slip out of the grasp of incumbents then thrive in the hands of upstarts?
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