Vaclav Smil — Innovation with Grains of Salt
Professor Vaclav Smil cautions about the hyperbolic claims being made for new headline-grabbing technologies. The early 21st century is obsessed with innovation. Google’s Ngram shows that the term “innovation” appears nearly 2.5 times more frequently than it did 20 years ago. Searching the Web of Science, which indexes nearly 10,000 periodicals, now returns more results […]