Assuming that innovation truly is dwindling (not saying it is, just saying it is for this argument), maybe it's just because of exponential growth. Think of th

Assuming that innovation truly is dwindling (not saying it is, just saying it is for this argument), maybe it's just because of exponential growth. Think of the graph of the square root of X[1]; as x increases rapidly, the change in Y gradually gets smaller and smaller. Maybe as advances in technology increase rapidly (as they have for the past many thousands of years), the amount of true innovation gets smaller and smaller as a function of the same changes. Or maybe I'm just being a math nerd looking too much into this... And also, I think if something was truly innovative, maybe we wouldn't immediately be aware of it[2]. [1] http://thesaurus.maths.org/mmkb/media/png/Squareroot.png http://thesaurus.maths.org/mmkb/media/png/Squareroot.png [2] http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/09/why-we-desire-but-reject-creative-ideas/ http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/09/why-we-desire-but-rej...