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How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
- Most innovation is a gradual process. The modern obsession with disruptive innovation, a phrase coined by the Harvard professor Clayton Christensen in 1995, is misleading.
from How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley
Minsuk Kang 강민석 added 9mo ago
- According to one estimate, per unit of power, coal kills nearly 2,000 times as many people as nuclear; bioenergy fifty times; gas forty times; hydro fifteen times; solar five times (people fall off roofs installing panels) and even wind power kills nearly twice as many as nuclear. These numbers include the accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima. Extr... See more
from How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley
Minsuk Kang 강민석 added 9mo ago
- Democracy does not exist and free speech is impossible. I repeat: the stories of innovation that I have documented in this book teach a lesson that it relies heavily on freedom.
from How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley
Minsuk Kang 강민석 added 9mo ago
- I repeat that Edison tested 6,000 plant materials till he found the right kind of bamboo for the filament of a light bulb.
from How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley
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- The main problem fusion will still have to solve, as with nuclear fission, is how to drive down the cost by mass production of the reactors, with the ability to redesign from experience along the way so as to learn cost-cutting lessons.
from How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley
Minsuk Kang 강민석 added 9mo ago
- The chief way in which innovation changes our lives is by enabling people to work for each other. As I have argued before, the main theme of human history is that we become steadily more specialized in what we produce, and steadily more diversified in what we consume: we move away from precarious self-sufficiency to safer mutual interdependence.
from How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley
Minsuk Kang 강민석 added 9mo ago
- There is no day when you can say: computers did not exist the day before and did the day after, any more than you could say that one ape-person was an ape and her daughter was a person.
from How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley
Minsuk Kang 강민석 added 9mo ago
- Who was vaping’s innovator? The original inventor was a man named Hon Lik who devised the first modern electronic cigarette in order to stop himself smoking. Around the turn of the twenty-first century, he was working as a chemist at the Liaoning Provincial Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. He want... See more
from How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley
Minsuk Kang 강민석 added 9mo ago
- In a famous essay called ‘I, Pencil’, Leonard Reed pointed out that a simple pencil is made by many different people, some cutting trees down, others mining graphite, others working in pencil factories, or in marketing or management, yet others growing coffee for the lumberjacks and managers to drink. Amid this vast team of collaborating people, no... See more
from How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley
Minsuk Kang 강민석 added 9mo ago