The New Yorker's Epic Fail On Innovation

The New Yorker is my favorite mainstream magazine. Week after week, its polished writing is a sign that maybe after all, civilization is not yet quite extinct. So when The New Yorker devotes the whole of its current issue to innovation, I should be very happy. But I'm not. That's because the entire issue hardly talks about innovation at all. Inventions, not innovation The May 2013 innovation issue of The New Yorker speaks at length about inventions--wacky new gadgets, including treadmill desks, ...