This is pretty wrong. Innovation is in human nature the same way that flying is in the animal natures of birds. The question is equivalent to asking whether t

This is pretty wrong. Innovation is in human nature the same way that flying is in the animal natures of birds. The question is equivalent to asking whether the human brain is a vestigial organ, like the wing of an ostrich -- absurd. The industrial revolution didn't constitute the introduction of innovation to human behavior. All humans in all time periods innovated in order to adapt to novel environments. All human environments since pre-history have been novel environments relative to human genetic instinctual behavior, and even relative to the immediately preceding generation of humans, which was usually smaller in population, less organized, and less developed. The industrial revolution was made possible by technological and scientific prerequisites accumulated over centuries. Ob. Betteridge's Law.