How We Got to Now
by Steven Johnson
Six innovations, glass, cold, sound, clean, time, light, and the unexpected chains they set off. Johnson's hummingbird effect: innovation ripples sideways.
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- Innovations ripple sideways.
- Adjacent possible.
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