When we seek to understand how innovation works, how it could lead to lasting improvements in the story of human progress, we have to explore: what are the sources of that innovation, where, or from what different directions, does the impetus for innovation come from. I’d like to think I’ve been doing this satisfactorily enough already, but today let’s take a closer look at a certain dichotomy I’ve hinted at now and then, with regard to this question - this matters because it also goes to the very heart of organization, all organization.

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Further Reading & Reference

* Ridley, Matt. (2016). The Evolution of Everything - How New Ideas Emerge. Perennial. ISBN 978-0062296016.

* Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James. (2013). Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. Crown Currency. ISBN: 978-0307719225.

* Ryan, Martin; Higham, Nicholas. (2015). The Anglo-Saxon World. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300216134

* Bingham, Harry. (2007). This Little Britain: How One Small Country Changed the Modern World. Fourth Estate. ISBN 978-0007258482.

* Willetts, David. (2019). The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children’s Future - And Why They Should Give It Back. Atlantic Books. 978-1786491220.

* Conc 01 - Are Language Models just Parrots? - I discuss the distinctions between top-down conventional computers and bottom-up AI

* Econ 10 - The Free Market of the Creative Commons - Common Law in practice within the Open Source ecosystem

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