The hypocrisy in Silicon Valley's big talk on innovation
These articles are easy to write (and upvote) but such conclusions are pretty meaningless till you have a definition of what counts as innovation.  That's a very interesting question, and yet just about everyone who talks about this topic ducks it and goes instead for the easy score.<p>Maybe we can do better here on HN.  What's the right way to measure innovation?  E.g. surely the 5 year old's definition (big shiny things that fly through the air are innovative, and invisible software isn't) is mistaken.  But what would a good measure be?