Blitzkrieg: How Britain Invented, Then Ignored It
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People Are Idiots
Fuller never received his second gold medal, and was forbidden from publishing his second essay. The army also blocks publication of Fuller's books for several years. Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery Massingbird didn't read Fuller's most celebrated book. When Steve Jobs visited Xerox Park in 1979 he couldn't contain himself when he saw a windows and mouse interface for the first time. But there is something about the idiot theory that feels too glib. Was Kodak really run by idiots in the 1970s? Was Sony in the 1990s? No. These organisations stumbled for a reason.
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