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Silicon Valley has a bad habit of “inventing” things that already exist

6 mins | Jan 17, 2018

Just imagine inventing the idea of being thirsty: the brainwave, the genius, the exorbitant amount of venture capital. Keith A. Spencer, writing in Salon, looks at Silicon Valley’s ridiculous tendency to repackage existing things as “new inventions”.