Expand Your Mind: Your Tomorrow
by Miki Saxon
I have just one link for you today, not because it’s a long article, but because there are 32 parts to Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow and I think you will enjoy them all.
We tend to rewrite the histories of technological innovation, making myths about a guy who had a great idea that changed the world. In reality, though, innovation isn’t the goal; it’s everything that gets you there. It’s bad financial decisions and blueprints for machines that weren’t built until decades later. It’s the important leaps forward that synthesize lots of ideas, and it’s the belly-up failures that teach us what not to do.
When we ignore how innovation actually works, we make it hard to see what’s happening right in front of us today. (…) Worse, the fairy-tale view of history implies that innovation has an end. It doesn’t. What we want and what we need keeps changing. (…)
That’s what this issue is about: all the little failures, trivialities and not-quite-solved mysteries that make the successes possible. This is what innovation looks like. It’s messy, and it’s awesome. –Maggie Koerth-Baker
Which are your favorites?
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