“A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.” Gustavo Petro This week’s column is another instalment of Back to the Future, a mini-series to discuss that some of our most radical innovations take us back to an idea, product or service that we’ve already had. The question I’m going to be investigating is: “How is just the idea of something that has already existed as more than an idea in our past so radically innovative today?” In this instalment of Back to the Future I’m going to look at how,…

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