The basic premise, for those of you who do not like to click on in-line links, is that the drive to innovate is all well and good, but it has less direct impact on our day-to-day lives than proper maintenance of our infrastructure. That often innovation does not take into account the effort needed to maintain the new technology or idea.
They take it a step farther and blame the drive to innovate and entrepreneurship on the increasing gap between the haves and have-nots. Because we all want the latest and greatest, the fastest and fanciest, we reward those that create them disproportionately to those that then have to fix those new products when they break through their performance envelope.
While I do not disagree with the authors (they have fancy, unassailable letters after their names), I do think that they are missing a few things. Read on.
