Are Innovations connected to Public Acceptance

Sam
3 min readApr 7, 2021

Often we assume technology and innovation is catching up to our needs and not the other way around. We look at typical examples like social media which grew out of the advancement in computing technology. An alternate optics would say we have inventions that are waiting for public acceptance.

Many of us would be surprised to know that the first electric vehicle was introduced in US back in 1890. They were competing successfully with gasoline and steam powered cars. The gasoline with hand pulled ignition, clutch/gearbox and smoky exhaust was…

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