Post-event: Magic Kingdom & Wal-Mart Neighborhood Stores
I have a theory that there aren’t many “new” ideas. Most ideas claimed as “new” are really evolutions of older ideas, ideas that have been combined to a new purpose, or an existing idea which had a technological innovation to allow for a new use. History is dotted with breakthrough ideas of this sort. Since the early part of the 20th century, humans had been communicating with radio, and even earlier by land line phones. Two-way walkie-talkies were extensively used in World War II. Engineers in the 1970’s unlocked a way to combine these ideas, with a few innovations, to allow for cellular technology. Mobile phones operate in a similar fashion to radios, at a higher bandwidth, and with the ability to hop from tower to tower, but conceptually...