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Part of the point of the article is that you probably don't need new technology to create a new _product_.


Right, for an incremental product for sure. Slack is an incremental product but now is worth billions. Point taken but Slack is not SpaceX.


Your example of a sector where we can’t use conservative technology to make progress is space travel? ;-)

But look, I see your point, but the “counterpoint” doesn’t actually disagree: the point is that a lot of incremental improvements in infrastructure feel transformative, but you get to pay the full cost regardless.




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