Neal Stephenson on society's failure to mobilize to "get big stuff done":
"Today's belief in ineluctable certainty is the true innovation-killer of our age."
Or in other words, blame Google, since a quick search for a solution to a problem demonstrates either, apparently, that it can't be solved, or that it already has been solved, occluding the possibility that it may not have been solved adequately, and it may not have been solved recently.
"Today's belief in ineluctable certainty is the true innovation-killer of our age."
Or in other words, blame Google, since a quick search for a solution to a problem demonstrates either, apparently, that it can't be solved, or that it already has been solved, occluding the possibility that it may not have been solved adequately, and it may not have been solved recently.
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