THE RESPONSES IN THIS FORUM have left me both humbled and hopeful. I will react to the three broad issues they raise.
Several respondents ask us to rethink what exactly innovation and prosperity even are, and the connections (if any) between them (Yuen Yuen Ang; Andrea Jimenez Cisneros and Tony Roberts; Andrew Russell). They call for a fuller exploration of the options for communities in the United States (Russell) and across the globe, especially in less developed countries (Ang; Jimenez Cisneros and Roberts), without imposing our (market-based, Euro-American) ideas of what prosperity is. I fully concur with their views; we should.