Martin Gilbert: 'Impatience is a virtue'
Investors can play an important part in recognising innovations and accelerating their adoption

Martin Gilbert, chairman of Aberdeen Standard Investments
Fifty years ago this month, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) opened in California. It went on to develop numerous important technologies, including the first computer with a mouse and graphical user interface (GUI). These innovations transformed our lives.
I was still at school back then. Today, our teachers' blackboard and chalk look like relics of a bygone age. But that is a very recent shift. It is only because of the Covid-19 pandemic that traditional...
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