A prize-winning scientific theorist presents an in-depth premise on the origins and evolution of technology that explains the sources of transformative new technologies and why they are associated with specific inventive cultural regions, in a report that explains how technologies arrive in a process akin to evolution.

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W. Brian Arthur is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a visiting researcher at Xerox Parc. Formerly a professor of economics at Stanford University, he was awarded the prestigious Schumpeter Prize in economics and the inaugural Lagrange Prize in complexity science. He has been profiled in Fortune and Wired and has written for Scientific American, Science, and the Harvard Business Review. He lives in Palo Alto, California.

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