For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some ‘organic element’ since I couldn’t accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.
The USA has 157 million workers, shuffling 140,000 years of work a day. One in 4 has an idea. One in five of those is a good idea. Two thousand stakeholders can make it an innovative idea. So, they can pump 3.5 years of brute force innovation into the world every single day. That’s well over a thousand years of advancement per year.
Critical mass populations that can keep up with their own development are a serious creative force to be reckoned with. And human evolution has been exceeded by innovation, dramatically.
you sound like someone gave chatgpt a prompt about shoving the word innovation into a meaningless set of sentences as many times as possible.
I wouldn’t have put it as crudely, but you captured the essence of what I was thinking.
It was from a study on innovation that gives a breakdown on the innovation pipeline.
You know what, I’ll bite. I want to see this, genuinely. Please link me the study of innovation you’re referencing.
It’s kind of an old concept. The idea is that truly new discoveries, like new theories and inventions rather than expansions or extensions, mostly happen by serendipity. So if you have more people churning ideas you get a higher probability of winning serendipity.
But thousands of years of experience die off every day too.