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January 2002

Why Weeds?

If you use new technology while it's still buggy, you're an innovator too.

By Michael Schrage

Even the most casual reader of Technology Review can't avoid coming to the obvious conclusion: there's no shortage of creative people with creative ideas. Quite the contrary, in disciplines ranging from software to biotechnology to materials science, the rate of technical change has accelerated far more rapidly than the ability of most markets to successfully absorb it.

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