filoli.org ... Long Live The Hammer! “To be, or not to be, that is the question”. Indeed an question that one should keep asking. An answer to the Middle Class Innovation Dilemma can be either Open or Closed. But, there is no reason, that the universe does not allow both of them to be right. Please keep in mind without considering other dimensions, such as when and what, the question of which one better is only idealism. The law of the instrument has it - “if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” Unless, it's Mjolnir. Oh, even Thor will need to learn new tricks. The Smartphone Revolution Let’s focus on the innovation, that tips a system to a paradigm shift, and the other to democratize it, in that order. In the recent smartphone revolution, there are iOS vs Android. They are almost the perfect archetypes of Closed vs Open. The Beginning of Time No one know what's the next big thing for sure. Unless you hav