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2nd December 2000

The art of innovation

“Every now and then, someone very young turns, with astonishing creativity, to the task of creating an entirely new way of doing something. Napster founder Shawn Fanning at age 18 reinvented the way music is distributed over the Internet. Bill Gates, at age 19, foresaw a future in what were then known as microcomputers and founded a company he called Microsoft. Innovation, the act of creating change, has a knack for coinciding with youth. This is true in technology, and it is also true in art.”

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Filed in: Technology

2nd December 2000

The art of innovation

“Every now and then, someone very young turns, with astonishing creativity, to the task of creating an entirely new way of doing something. Napster founder Shawn Fanning at age 18 reinvented the way music is distributed over the Internet. Bill Gates, at age 19, foresaw a future in what were then known as microcomputers and founded a company he called Microsoft. Innovation, the act of creating change, has a knack for coinciding with youth. This is true in technology, and it is also true in art.”

Comments are closed.