Here’s a interesting paraphrased quote about types of innovation, from a book I’ve been reading this week
“Steam engines increased global productivity by many orders of magnitude…(while)…1970s saw a decline in American national productivity, seemingly reflected in the kind of innovations such as replacing window room air-conditioners with central building air-conditioners.”
– The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson
The quote kept me up a while trying to think of similar examples
“An innovation like eBay, not Facebook”
“An innovation like lamp shades, not Nest”
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