Via Business Insider:
Since William Hooker of Abingdon, Ill. invented the spring-loaded mousetrap in 1894, more than 4,400 patents for new mousetraps have been filed in the U.S.
But has anyone really improved on the spring trap?
A recent protracted and methodical battle with a mouse in my apartment suggests they have not.
Ponder: What’s the difference between resisting innovation because of fear of change and not innovating aggressively because some things really do work just fine?
