Somewhere along the line, whether it was the Mexican farmers who 6,000 years ago began genetically engineering the precursors to corn, or Bill Hewlett and David Packard, who transformed semiconductors into calculators, business machines, and laser printers, it is innovation that has created the products that enable us to live like no other species on earth. Read the rest of this entry »
Steve Jobs (Apple) didn’t invent the semiconductor, Bill Gates (Microsoft) didn’t invent the computer operating system, Oprah Winfrey (The Oprah Show) didn’t invent the talk show, and Mark Zuckerman (Facebook) did not invent social networking. Read the rest of this entry »