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This is a massive over-simplification. The issue isn't that people are not innovating, it's that there are long routes to delivery for many things. Medical cha
by lbriner 5y ago
This is a massive over-simplification. The issue isn't that people are not innovating, it's that there are long routes to delivery for many things.
Medical changes take years to test and approve; AI takes ages to adapt; hundreds of companies already produce innovative products that are simply unknown and even air-conditioning companies can't exactly perform a 5 minute tweak to something to clean ventilation systems, any changes are likely to require training, availability of tradespeople, significant disruption and then ongoing maintenance costs.
- winternett 5y agoAgreed, it's part of a much larger discussion, with limits on web real estate, getting to the point quickly and being succinct becomes more and more important. There surely are ground breaking innovations every day, but especially lately, the unremarkable ones push them out of the way in favor of quick headlines that spur impulse-driven investment. We all probably can recall how popular an effort to "catapult" very rich and famous people into the outer atmosphere was and still is, while we have already travelled to the moon, decades prior at that.... Whether any of the things getting the most public recognition and funding these days really be considered as "game changing innovation" is the real question raised.