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Napkins and Human Innovation

Napkins-Only · Jul 14, 2016 · Leave a Comment

It took way too many napkin sketches to design the wheel

Humanity crafted the world on the backs of napkins…

Hyperbole?  Check again:

  • Compaq
  • the Seattle Space Needle
  • Harry Potter
  • Shark Week
  • the Voyager airplane
  • fire nozzles
  • multiple Pixar films
  • trickle-down economics
  • Ethernet
  • Twitter

Just to name a few.

The napkin: an ephemeral, innocuous, throw-away product… the world’s greatest small canvas for big ideas.

So let’s take a few seconds to celebrate our best bar friend, the napkin.

Where would the world be without you?

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