What was the last truly innovative thing you witnessed?
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I agree, they most certainly did say mRNA
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Yes, we've certainly progressed in nearly every field
But are they truly innovative or are they a natural evolution of something that already existed?
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Yes. Taking an existing thing and improving upon it is the literal definition of innovation.
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Accurate and repeatable motion systems.
Born too late to say that semiconductors age the thing for me, but the use has made closed loop control systems viable. Along with stepper, servo, and now new to be piezoelectric motors and linear stages.
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Not the definition I am referring to
- introducing new ideas; original and creative in thinking.
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All the more reason to despise RFKjr.
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Honestly if you're not putting the internet and the general proliferation of personal computers and then smartphones in the "truly innovative" category, then I'm not sure anything will make the cut—I'd make the argument that both are more innovative than flight which is something we can observe in nature.
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I disagree. Improving an existing concept and changing it to make it more practical or easier to produce for example is innovation.
The examples you give in the introduction are examples of that: The parts that make an automobile existed when it was invented and you could argue again that it wasn't a completely novel idea but an improvement of the steam engine and horse-drawn vehicles.
The airplane massively relied on improvements in engine and material design.
Your assessment that innovations used to be completely original in their design and are not any more is a fallacy.
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Every so often I hold a microsd card and I think about how much storage is on that pinky-nailed sized $20 device. Compared to ancient hard drives it is one of the few things that makes me remember "oh shit I live in the future".
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Yeah. I think it is.
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I also disagree
Your reply in of itself is a fallacy
An airplane relying upon improvements engine and material design does not negate the very real revelation of human flight to the world
Nor does your oversimplified and ultimately incorrect explanation steam engines and evolution of horse drawn vehicles
Especially considering the first automobiles were steam powered
It completely misses the point
The horseless carriage itself was the innovation
I apologize for not explaining the question more thoroughly
I am talking about innovation in a fully realized concept
I always thought that flying cars would be the next major leap in innovation, but it's still in its fledgling stages
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Katamari Damacy
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I don't see very many humans naturally flapping their arms flying around very often
There was that one guy, but I'd say it was more falling with style than flying
... and he didn't stick the landing
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I am also thankful that my children were born in this era as well
There has been significant progress in the treatment of cystic fibrosis
Still not the kind of innovation I am talking about
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Bone conducting headphones
Peltier personal AC neck coolers. (eg Coolify2)
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The internet has totally changed how humanity works, learns, socialises, and plays. I cannot think of a more dramatic social upheaval, aside from possibly the industrial revolution, or the taming of the horse.
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I was pretty impressed with the Samsung Gear VR (and Google Cardboard before it) when it was first released back in 2015. Instead of having to spend a lot on a fancy computer system and headset to experience VR, you could just stick your phone close to your eyes. Of course, it wasn't as good as an actual VR headset, but it was the first VR experience that was easily approachable for 'regular' people, and was a lot better than I thought it'd be.
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Gene Editting with CRISPR and other techniques. Eventually this will be truly personalized medicine at an affordable fee.
Fusion with more power output than input will become a game changer. Currently we have done fusion but the energy to do the demonstration was in total more than the output
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The Internet has changed almost every aspect of daily life, I don't see why you don't think it is as innovative as the invention of the car.
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Life is vastly different than in the 80s. You can literally know anything you want right now, simply by asking an artificially intelligent handheld computer that has access to every discovery known to man. We're on the cusp of being able to cure almost any disease and live forever. We can blow the planet up 10x over and still have ammo left. Scientists can see so far away that they can almost see the beginning of time. Nothing your great grandfather saw in his life will compare to what you will see in yours, have already seen.
