EDUTAINMENT, Technology Adoption, and the current Revolution
Now, two things are happening.
Technology is making old and new ideas cheaper and easier to build.
There’s a reemergence of “premium demand.”
Ideas Need Adoption to Make an Impact
Ideas alone are not enough. They need to be techno-economically viable, buildable for a low enough cost that the market is able to adopt them. There is no progress without
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