Innovation often follows a boom-and-bust cycle—just look at Atari and Bitcoin

Dec 26 2022 by Fast Company

When imitations flood the market, the expert creativity that acted as a catalyst is diluted.

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 crash of 1983, when consumer demand plummeted and companies like Atari literally dumped their cartridges in the trash.

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