Evans “What comes after smartphones?” (2020)

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2020/12/13/what-comes-after-smartphones “There’s an old saying that the first fifty years of the car industry were about creating car companies and working out what cars should look like, and the second fifty years were about what happened once everyone had a car – they were about McDonalds and Walmart, suburbs and …

Asimov “ON CREATIVITY” (1959)

“ON CREATIVITY by Isaac Asimov, c.1959. How do people get new ideas? Presumably, the process of creativity, whatever it is, is essentially the same in all its branches and varieties, so that the evolution of a new art form, a new gadget, a new scientific principle, all involve common factors. …