Carl, thank you, that was a wonderful talk. I see innovation every day as I develop my online project of sending a few moments of peace and calm out into the world. It's amazing to see how ordinary 'extraordinary' people are making up new and exciting rules on how to do things as they go along and because of the immediacy of the internet their effects can be measured rapidly. Thank you for this, and thanks to TED for having the foresight to put together this resource. Johnnie Lawson
I love this! I couldn't have said it any better! Some people will not get excited about this video. If you do share Carl Bass's vision and ideas then you have already shared a glimpse into the future.
I enjoyed it to the point where he said: "computing is becoming ubiquitous..it's in our phone, our cars, it's in our buildings, soon will be in our clothing and it will probably end in our bodies" That makes me say that innovation is great until a certain point. Innovation and technology will destroy the human being, all the planet and its beauty, and that it's sad and scary because it's also about our children, thinking in the future that they will have to live it's just horrendous.
How come no one talks about the role of public funded research in actual innovation? For example, the internet and every bit of tech that made smart phones possible?
ALL innovation is only held back anymore. The reason is because of Money. Why does a toaster only last 3 years? or 6 months? or even if you buy the best one on the shelf, maybe 10 years. The reason is called "planned obsolescence " which is a marketing tactic so they can sell you another one sooner. We, as a specie, should be able to make a toaster last 100 years by now. But there are profits to make. More of your money going to big corp, more often. This goes for every product across the board. You heard... "They don't make em like they used to " There's a reason for that, and its not lack of innovation. It's greed for more money. They pay farmers not to grow, and pour milk out, in order to hold market value. This is a complete waste of the resources that we have on this finite planet. Please explore... The Venus Project !!
some nice aspects - and some good dieas for a talk - thanks for that - but have we not heard all this before, decades beofre, and is it not a little borong and a tad patronising - and we still have billions of people dying of hunger and poverty and it seems like we can't sustain this level of power just for a small segment of people who are not looking beyond california- all this thinking and ideas need to redirected to people and countries where it is all needed - we are wasting a whole lot of all we invent in just entertaining and amusing ourselves
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Innovation to me is having access for all humanity to the best of what technology is capable of acheiving given our present knowledge both public and private. What prevents access is funding, which is money which is debt...please view my vid. WHERE CAN INNOVATION TAKE HUMANITY.
