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True, but you missed the underlying concept of this statement. The trend of innovation is increasingly becoming grassroots-driven. In part, that's because our

True, but you missed the underlying concept of this statement. The trend of innovation is increasingly becoming grassroots-driven. In part, that's because our fundamental research advancement has stagnated, i.e., the nation states can no longer steadily produces ground breaking tech that leaves the industry to adopt. As a result the adopt of standards become more relevant to SMBs and individuals. On the other hand, Internet has driven down the knowledge acquisition cost to probably bare minimal. I.e., modern days, one who has good understanding of English can learn pretty much any highest-level of knowledge almost for free. The SMBs and individuals are becoming more and more sophisticated, making them gradually become competent to be involved in the standardization process. In short, ISO's practice is fine looking from a perspective of 10 years ago, but it's now wrong.

launderthis 6y ago
> The trend of innovation is increasingly becoming grassroots-driven Please qualify this, I call bs. I acutally think its harder and harder to innovate now a days and we need large companies to innovate because scale is now the battle for any product that makes an impact. If its a "trend" then you must have historical data that displays the change and im sure you have a hard definition for "innovation" and "grassroots". This is basically a flippant comment that Im not even sure you feel strongly about but it sounds nice. > down the knowledge acquisition cost to probably bare minimal you dont understand how important experience is. Books have been around for centuries, all this knowledge was not much more difficult to get decades ago but you still have people cant perform surgery from reading a book or create a rocket ship. Knowledge is about 10% of the solution to any problem. >individuals are becoming more and more sophisticated Complicated yes, sophisticated no. Look at music, you think this is a sophisticated society???

launderthis 6y ago

> The trend of innovation is increasingly becoming grassroots-driven Please qualify this, I call bs. I acutally think its harder and harder to innovate now a days and we need large companies to innovate because scale is now the battle for any product that makes an impact. If its a "trend" then you must have historical data that displays the change and im sure you have a hard definition for "innovation" and "grassroots". This is basically a flippant comment that Im not even sure you feel strongly about but it sounds nice. > down the knowledge acquisition cost to probably bare minimal you dont understand how important experience is. Books have been around for centuries, all this knowledge was not much more difficult to get decades ago but you still have people cant perform surgery from reading a book or create a rocket ship. Knowledge is about 10% of the solution to any problem. >individuals are becoming more and more sophisticated Complicated yes, sophisticated no. Look at music, you think this is a sophisticated society???