The problem may not be that we are innovating less well than we used to, or have lost our appetite for imaging our surroundings and selves in a new way.

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Some gas companies are responding to this threat to production by innovating ways to frack with less water use.

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It has been good at responding to events, less so at innovating or at dealing with Congress, where it lacks a majority.

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In the meantime, a little less preaching and a little more innovating might go a long way toward winning consumers' loyalty, and toward boosting share prices.

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AMD, with a research-and-development budget less than 15% of Intel's, may actually be out-innovating it.

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