Sellers, Marketers, Makers -- Innovation's Ancestry

“In many cases there are times when an invention is technologically possible –- and in which it may indeed appear necessary, as the telescope may have -- but without a market the idea will not sell, and in the absence of the technical and social infrastructure to support it, the invention will not survive.” James Burke, Connections (1978)

This essay can be found on the jgcii substack here: Sellers, Marketers, Makers: Innovation's Ancestry