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The Failed Promise of Innovation in the U.S.
And a response…
But what actually happened to American innovation during that period? We came up with America Online, Netscape, Amazon, Google, Blogger, Wikipedia, Craigslist, TiVo, Netflix, eBay, the iPod and iPhone, Xbox, Facebook and Twitter itself. Sure, we didn’t build the Prius or the Wii, but if you measure global innovation in terms of actual lifestyle-changing hit products and not just grad students, the U.S. has been lapping the field for the past 20 years.
—Steven Johnson in Time
We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.
—Dave Clark on the IETF
The web has not seen this level of transformation, this level of acceleration, in the past ten years.
—Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering, Google
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