This might be one of the best articles I've read on HN in a long time. One point that really hit home with me is that we need to innovate innovation. I'm will

This might be one of the best articles I've read on HN in a long time. One point that really hit home with me is that we need to innovate innovation. I'm willing to bet that a huge part of our stagnation is a result of our creative outlets not being diverse enough. We seem to have become limited to our screens and our virtual worlds. And it isn't by accident. We're social creatures and social media has sucked us in. And of course the internet plus the various kinds of screens (devices) used for viewing it are very effective means of communication, advertising, etc. And we love to be entertained. So I think the key to a wider range of innovation is to somehow reveal to the masses that there are many tangible concepts just waiting to become part of our physical world, concepts that will provide the same social, commercial, and entertaining functions as those in the virtual world. Somehow our collective focus will need to shift from virtual to physical. 3D printing is probably a good step in the right direction, but I think it will need to be combined with some kind of commodified robotics to be truly useful.