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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

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Adam Gopnik
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: August 24
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Scarcity
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Abundance
Ease
Innovation
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