> "There is very little invention going on." If you said there is very little fundamental research going on, I would agree with you; but even putting together

> "There is very little invention going on." If you said there is very little fundamental research going on, I would agree with you; but even putting together building blocks in a new way is invention. If you look at patents (arguably a unit of invention), most of them don't have fundamentally new building blocks, just existing blocks put together in new ways.