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For four decades, L’Atelier has worked to understand how emerging technologies impact society in ways often difficult to predict. Insights explores those spaces between.

Apr 21 2023

Johanna Costigan

MarketsTechnologySocietyCulture

Shanzhai knockoff culture might kill ‘innovation’. Long live invention!

Forgery nurtures invention. As it spreads globally, “shanzhai” culture may cure us of our preoccupation with innovation and authorship. We could well become creators again.

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Apr 21 2023

Johanna Costigan

Shanzhai knockoff culture might kill ‘innovation’. Long live invention!

Forgery nurtures invention. As it spreads globally, “shanzhai” culture may cure us of our preoccupation with innovation and authorship. We could well become creators again.

Read more

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