Innovation

The Innovator's Dilemma 《创新者的窘境》 Clayton Christensen Christensen explains why well-managed, customer-responsive companies routinely lose to disruptive technologies: the very practices that make them… Business Classic Index 94

Crossing the Chasm 《跨越鸿沟》 Geoffrey Moore Moore argues that there is a dangerous gap between early adopters and the mainstream market for high-tech products, and that crossing it requires… Business Classic Index 90

Only the Paranoid Survive 《只有偏执狂才能生存》 Andy Grove Grove describes strategic inflection points — moments when a fundamental change in the environment can destroy or transform a business — and how… Business Classic Index 89

The Innovators 《创新者》 Walter Isaacson Isaacson rejects the lone-genius narrative and argues that the digital revolution was above all collaborative: a relay among mathematicians and… Technology & Science Classic Index 87

Zero to One 《从 0 到 1》 Peter Thiel Thiel argues that genuinely valuable companies create something new — going from zero to one — rather than copying what exists, and that in his… Business Classic Index 87

The Second Machine Age 《第二次机器革命》 Erik Brynjolfsson Brynjolfsson and McAfee argue that digital technology now lets machines substitute for cognitive as well as physical labor, opening a “second… Technology & Science Classic Index 84

Genius Makers 《天才制造者》 Cade Metz Metz reports on how deep learning moved from academic margin to industrial center around 2012: a competition, a handful of companies, a few… Artificial Intelligence Classic Index 80

Economics 2017 The Fuzzy and the Techie Scott Hartley The Fuzzy and the Techie 《文艺呆与科技宅》 Scott Hartley Against Silicon Valley's disdain for the humanities. Economics AZM's list

The Man Behind the Microchip 《硅谷之父》 Leslie Berlin A technical breakthrough persists as an industry only when paired with institutions that let engineers share in the rewards Technology & Science Daily Pick

The Idea Factory 《贝尔实验室与美国革新大时代》 Jon Gertner Innovation is not the lucky flash of genius but a product designed out of funding structures, physical space, and cross-disciplinary collaboration Technology & Science Daily Pick

Stuff Matters 《迷人的材料》 Mark Miodownik How matter shapes civilisation: a materials-science tour from steel and glass to graphite and aerogel Technology & Science Daily Pick