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Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
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The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author-a favorite of Bill Gates-pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of invention.
Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises of new inventions-from cures for diseases to AI. He reminds us that even after we go quite far along the invention...
Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises of new inventions-from cures for diseases to AI. He reminds us that even after we go quite far along the invention...
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