Hyping Innovation, Neglecting Maintenance
KPFA - Against the Grain
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The History of Innovation
At what point did innovation become a concern for members of society or maybe elites in society? At what point did that happen because you argue it hasn't always been so. And we'll talk more about particularly what happened after World War II that led to the ubiquity of the term innovation as this goal to be achieved. But I wonder if you can give us a bit of a history of the valorization or lack thereof of innovation when we look back, going centuries back.
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