As dozens of new automobile companies started up, rapid innovation and intense competition led to falling sales in the early 1920s.
Fedora aims for rapid innovation using open processes and public forums.
In fact, rapid innovation may work against the Japanese, who favor longer, more stable product cycles to match their investment strategy.
The result is going to be much like what we've seen in the personal computer industry - rapid technological innovation and rapidly falling prices.
But Washington does not know how many surgeons the country needs now, let alone in 10 years of rapid innovation.
Many experts point to rapid technological innovations and say that live Internet and e-mail service will be available on some airplanes within a year.
Markets based on these interactions are considered to be key to creating market conditions to drive rapid innovation in on-site power storage and generation technologies.
The rapid financial and technological innovation of the last two decades has thrown this system radically out of balance.
But in fact, the cost of computing power has fallen by half, thanks to rapid innovation.
And it is probably true that rapid innovation in these areas would benefit the whole economy.