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[https://aeon.co/essays/innovation-is-overvalued-maintenance-often-matters-more by Andrew Russell aeon] | [https://aeon.co/essays/innovation-is-overvalued-maintenance-often-matters-more by Andrew Russell aeon] | ||
Innovation is a dominant ideology of our era, embraced in America by Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and the Washington DC political elite. As the pursuit of innovation has inspired technologists and capitalists, it has also provoked critics who suspect that the peddlers of innovation radically overvalue innovation. What happens after innovation, they argue, is more important. Maintenance and repair, the building of infrastructures, the mundane labour that goes into sustaining functioning and efficient infrastructures, simply has more impact on people’s daily lives than the vast majority of technological innovations. | Innovation is a dominant ideology of our era, embraced in America by Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and the Washington DC political elite. As the pursuit of innovation has inspired technologists and capitalists, it has also provoked critics who suspect that the peddlers of innovation radically overvalue innovation. What happens after innovation, they argue, is more important. Maintenance and repair, the building of infrastructures, the mundane labour that goes into sustaining functioning and efficient infrastructures, simply has more impact on people’s daily lives than the vast majority of technological innovations. | ||
=====We have to accelerate clean energy innovation to curb the climate crisis. Here’s how.===== | |||
[https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/21426920/climate-change-renewable-energy-solar-wind-innovation-green-new-deal by David Roberts 31/10/20 Vox] | |||
A detailed road map for building a US energy innovation ecosystem. | |||
