In a recent article entitled “The Breakthrough Myth” author Clive Thompson postulates that most radical new technologies have been “percolating in plain sight for years.” He begins with the position that everyone is looking for the Next New Big Thing or as I like to say, the “New New Thing”. This is based upon the assumption that all breakthroughs are “inherently surprising, so it takes a special genius to spot one coming.”
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