Except innovation doesn't work like you're suggesting it does. Real innovation takes an insanely long time to manifest and it comes in waves. It often builds on

Except innovation doesn't work like you're suggesting it does. Real innovation takes an insanely long time to manifest and it comes in waves. It often builds on top of stuff that's incredibly familiar to us and doesn't look like innovation except in retrospect. Even the iPhone falls into this category. I like to contextualize the concept of innovation with the "S" curve: https://osmoticinnovation.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/tech-curves-a.jpg https://osmoticinnovation.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/tech-c...