So if we narrowly define innovation in the way the article does, I would take it a step further to say that innovation isn't all its cracked up to be and we can

So if we narrowly define innovation in the way the article does, I would take it a step further to say that innovation isn't all its cracked up to be and we can greatly improve our technology without innovating. If innovating was so useful we would've kept going after 1978 and since we didn't I am satisfied to conclude that we knew better than to waste our time chasing this defined version of innovation.