Comment on: Re: How does this era in innovation measure up?

Bigthink — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:49:26 +0100

The first part of this statement is completely off base, but in the second part it echo's what really happens.

Fire, the wheel and melting bronze; didn't just happen overnight. It was the culmination of years of observations and experiments by man until you could replicate the technology; much like the light bulb and everything else.

It's the constant evolution of ideas, observations and experiments that brings about new technologies and change.

It's also the motivating factors (war, depression, fuel prices) that drive more people to start thinking and experimenting to find better solutions to current systems. That is what drives the gigantic leaps in technology, which is contrary to the popular notion that money drives technology changes.

It's not the money that you spend to pay for people to research new technologies that drives massive change, but the hope of saving or gaining large quantities of money/independence after the fact, not before.

The only difference now; is there are more of us doing it and we all have more access to the global resource of information than the people from the past.

The only problem is that it is more wild, more messy and requires more people to clean up and refine that mess before we can enjoy the fruits of our labor.

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Comment on: Re: How does this era in innovation measure up?