Our inventors and innovators must have the courage to fail in a troubled world

By Harold Mitchell
Updated September 30 2016 - 9:08am, first published 12:15am
'If you don't have the chance to fail, you simply can't win.' Illustration: Peter Riches
'If you don't have the chance to fail, you simply can't win.' Illustration: Peter Riches
Google Maps is an ingenious bit of software that changed the world.
Google Maps is an ingenious bit of software that changed the world.

Right now if I look at Google Maps, I can tell you that three streets away there is a bank up of traffic leading from the city to the western suburbs. Of course Google knows everything but this ingenious bit of software began as a start-up by an Israeli army officer with an engineering degree.

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