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The shift toward lower-risk, impersonal innovation in tech risks replacing the erratic genius of founders who pursue impossible moonshots.
What: The tech industry is seeing a transition away from the non-linear, high-risk breakthroughs that defined products like the iPhone and early social networks toward safer, more standardized corporate innovation.
Why it matters: This trend suggests an industry maturation where venture capital and corporate structures are optimizing for predictability over the disruptive, often accidental discoveries that historically reshaped computing.
Original article
Founders used to aim for the stars. iPhones, social networks, large language models, and cryptocurrency are the sort of non-linear increments that were either created by accident or in the process of trying to do the impossible or unprecedented. The non-linear option is now more impersonal and lower-risk than ever. This means people who have no personal reason to take risks and pursue a moonshot are more likely to try anyway.
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