Not Tonight Dear, My Innovation Wore Me Out

10/19/19 • 13 min

Our patronage supports those firms and innovations which satisfy our desires, and in some cases, outright lust, all the while giving us a feeling of belonging. We can point to examples of this across social media platforms, high-tech devices, games and VR, medical advancements, financial management, and home appliances to name but a few.

Whatever the rationale for rapidly incorporating innovation into our daily lives, our healthcare solutions, and of course, our high-tech automobiles, our adoption of innovations is creating culture divisions not just along generational lines, but also across economic ranges. With the rapid pace of innovation now touching into all aspects of artificial intelligence, society is increasingly shocked by the arrivals of daily advances. With those shocks, come fatigue as individuals struggle to keep up and incorporate changes into their personal, economic, political, and even religious identities.

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Politics, Change and Conflict--An Unholy Innovation Trio

This podcast was recorded at a time when the “doomsday” clock was less than two minutes to global destruction. A time when climate change tears apart the fabric of society, environments, and generally the world in which humans inhabit.

Can the ramifications of our innovations (i.e., those that have powered a collective four major iterations of the “industrial revolution”), move us beyond where we are today—or are those ramifications what got us here to begin with? Are we indeed at the cusp of failures, or can it be attributable to the normal growing pains of a new innovative revolution?

Our societies are conflicted due to the rise of nationalism and populism especially within and across our political dialogues. Innovations are giving individuals and groups greater voice to spread their messages, while reaching individuals, providing differing viewpoints, and being able to deliver voices which once were restricted or ignored.

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Innovation Addiction: The NEW drug of Choice

Addiction is an animal “thing”—it’s an unpleasant human disposition for some people. In fact, there are a few experts that make a point to say every person on this planet has some form of addition. It could be addicted to TV, sweets, news feeds, social media, gaming, gambling, alcohol, drugs, sex, money, food, traveling, work, another person, sports, ice cream, GOT, and the lists go on and on and on.

Innovation addiction is relatively new, but from the time the first Space Invaders consoles hit the college campuses, the fire of seduction was ignited. And, while addiction is often characterized as an individual issue or a demographic grouping, it can also be a corporate concern or an industry obsession. Beyond individuals, the demand for data, big data by current classifications, is all encompassing in a world coming to be dominated by artificial intelligence. As intelligence multipliers expand, so does the exponential volumes needed to train and feed these human created algorithms of hidden complexity and growing capabilities.