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Innovation is a word I hear all the time. We live just outside of Silicon Valley, and it may be one of the most overused terms out here in the Bay Area.

Yeah, I have to say, it's getting close to eye roll status for me.

When I think real innovations that have changed mankind, people will mention

like the modern computer or they'll mention the gasoline car, the internal combustion engine. But

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