While we can recount the history of past technological progress, we cannot anticipate is future trajectory. And still we keep making futile attempts at predicting what is un-predeterminable. We have to come to terms with the onway nature of path-dependence.
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Society’s ambiguity
In the preceding two posts, I missed an important aspect of our unrealistic expectations: the ambiguous attitude towards technology that runs through today's western societies. So here's part 3 of 2.
understanding innovation 