What 250 Years of Innovation History Reveals About Our Green Future
If history is any indication, an unstoppable wave of competitive innovations is heading our way again.
«As do our jobs. Our answers to that old question “What do you do?” change: “I design webpages and facilitate SoMe.” That would be social media, by the way. In 1995, both the job itself and the answer would be utter gibberish. With each technical wave also come new social discourses.»
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