korrents

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A radically new product needs many separate technologies to arrive together, and waiting for that convergence can take decades.

Drawn from what Rodney Brooks said

What these subjects mean

innovation Where new things come from and how they spread: invention against diffusion, and being near the factory floor.

aviation Flying and the machines that do it: propulsion, airlines, runways, and what happened to Boeing.

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What Rodney Brooks actually said

  1. Rodney Brooks Robotics researcher, emeritus professor at MIT and former…
    All radically new products, and air taxi eVTOLs certainly count as radically new, require the convergence of many different capabilities and technologies. Often one or more technology will be lagging and it may take decades for them all to come together in the right place at the right time.

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