Hype, Hope, and Hard Truths: What Smil Teaches Us About Innovation

I am a fan of Bill Gates. His solutions to some of the world’s greatest problems are thoughtful and interesting and on a grand scale. Not solutions available at a personal level. One of his favorite authors is Vaclav Smil, which prompted me to read this book.

In Invention and Innovation, Vaclav Smil slices through the glossy veneer of modern tech enthusiasm with the precision of a skeptical historian. Instead of jumping on the bandwagon of progress, he asks a deeper question: what really counts as innovation?

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