What we need to do is create the next Apple. Steve Jobs imagined the future and willed it into reality. He took Apple where he thought the puck was going to be.

Nearly all of Apple’s revenue today comes from products that did not exist a decade ago. In another answer (Glenn Luk’s answer to Do any countries have a trade surplus with China?) I calculated how much economic value a single product (the iPhone) brings in from a single region (China) on its own:

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