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In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.

As any Silicon Valley insider, venture capitalist, or innovator will tell you, innovation arises from a community of people focused on trying out lots of things and learning their way to successful innovations.

This is an example with important application for the future. It suggests that thinking entrepreneurs in the next millennium will first introduce dramatic labor-saving automation in regions without a tradition of producing whatever product or service is in question.

engineers are typically the best single source of innovation; yet,

These are users of existing products and services who come to find them deficient and start not only envisioning improvements, but building and using them. Von

As would the author and angel investor Tim Ferriss, when he referred to Stoicism as the ideal “personal operating system” (other high-powered executives like Jonathan Newhouse, CEO of Condé Nast International, have agreed).

But technology is a means to some end.

The amount of time a company can count on holding on to market leadership to exploit its earlier innovations is shrinking, and this creates an imperative for even the most entrenched companies to invest in innovation.