If you have ever attended an innovation conference, you will be familiar with consultants’ graphs that show how, say, the second half of the 21st century will belong to African millennials relentlessly networking via wearable mobile devices. But what has struck me recently is not so much the extraordinary potential of the future, but the extent to which innovators draw on ingredients from the present and the past.
只要你参加过创新大会，就会熟悉咨询人员那些图表，它们会向你展示——比如——21世纪下半叶将属于不断通过可穿戴移动设备联络的非洲裔千禧一代。但最近让我吃惊的不是未来竟有如此巨大潜力，而是创新者对现在及过去已有元素的利用程度。
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