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Innovation is a Geographically Localized and Temporary Phenomenon
My article for Discourse:Innovation is the “main event” of the modern age. It’s the reason why after millennia of comparative stagnation, the last several hundred years featured sudden, dramatic improvements in technology and therefore living standards: from steam engines to search engines, from vaccines to vaping.It’s also a strangely localized and temporary phenomenon.