There’s an old adage about “the steady march of progress.” The truth, in fact, is that when it comes to technology and innovation, game-changing, massive leaps in progress are highly sporadic. Years or even decades can go by with just small, incremental gains before one key discovery or innovation comes along and unleashes a short, blinding torrent of progress. In the fields of medicine, the advent of technologies like antibiotics or genetic sequencing resulted in order of magnitude increases in…
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