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Matt Ridley on How Innovation Works

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The Cell Phone Is Just a Fascinating Idea

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i want to suggest that there's an upside of innovation that stands beyond all that, which is just the human enterprise of it. The opportunity to express ourselves, to do what steve jobs call, put a dent in the universe. I was utoo utopian about the international social media 20 years ago. i thought this internet world was going to enable us to m understand each other's views and points of view. But one could argue that taking a negative view of innovation, that is just a bunch of gadgets. And we had brooks on the program talk about in an essay he wrote,. He suggests he imagines a newton i travelling forward in timeand you hand him a telephone.

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