No organism is an island
No innovation, no matter how life-changing and transformative, prospers unless it finds a receptive environment. It needs to be born into the right time and place, or it will fail.
What kinds of environments do we create for one other?
What ideas do we reject because they seem impossible to us?
Context is everything: Why key developments often sit unused
The book Sleeping Beauties looks at everything—biology, skills, ideas—that lies latent.