When Steve Jobs famously recruited John Sculley from Pepsi to Apple, Jobs is reported to have asked Sculley, "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?"
There is no doubt that innovation has and is truly changing the world. Since the beginning of time, consider how nearly every basic human activity has followed the same pattern: People toil for long periods of time, and at great expense and great human sacrifice, to complete a repetitive task — until someone innovates a solution. Practically overnight, that previously difficult task is made easy, inexpensive and sometimes even obsolete.
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