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Technological Progress and Innovation
Posted by Arun in Innovation on August 14, 2008
“Any study of the history of technological development reveals that technological progress comes from doing things differently in an unpredictable way. Pocket calculators are not built with vacuum tubes. Supersonic flight is not achieved with propellers. Lasers are not just better light bulbs. In short, the future is definitely NOT a mere extrapolation of the [...]
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable by John Brockman
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The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save O by Shankar Vedantam
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Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky
Recent books:
- The Quantum Brain: The Search for Freedom and the Next Generation of Man by Jeffrey Satinover
- Googled: The End of the World As We Know It by Ken Auletta
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
- Quantum Leaps by Jeremy Bernstein
- 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
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