good thing CACM decided to become open access. bad thing this letter is not linking to original article by legend Vint Cerf. great examples about what innovation thresholds are and examples include Ken Thompson's Unix porting.
Here's context&summary. The original article is by Vinton Cerf// architect of web2 and architect in Matrix portrayed by Helmut Bakaitis// is here https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3586159. The link Dismantling Scaffolding is feedback by Evangelos Georgiadis to Vinton Cerf's original piece. Topic of conversation is innovation and examples of threshold developments are given ranging from decentralized exchanges to Ken Thompson's Unix porting.
