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Innovative products lead to a boom in imitation and often a bust - just look at Atari and Bitcoin

  • Written by Salva Duran-Nebreda, Researcher, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Innovative products lead to a boom in imitation and often a bust - just look at Atari and BitcoinAtari and Centipede games unearthed from a 2014 excavation of a New Mexico landfill.taylorhatmaker/flickr, CC BY-SA

Buried in a dusty landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico, are more than 700,000 discarded Atari game cartridges, including E.T., the 1982 Atari game based on the blockbuster film. This bleak trove of artifacts symbolizes the video game...

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