I have been active in this newsgroup along with a few others on
entrepreneur****p, innovation and new business startups only to discover
that
in the last three to five years no really significant innovation has hit
the
market. For over five years playing the self employment forum all I have
seen are resellers starting new businesses - nothing new, just buy from
China and sell on eBay - or the like.
In following alt.inventors newsgroup we see occasional claimants to
perpetual motion and the like, but not much in the real of real world,
possible applications of new, innovative technology.
Which once was the goose that laid the golden egg for the rest of the
world.
We invented the transistor - Sony got the license and took it to the moon
and back. We invented the camcorder and the same thing happened. 3M
invented
the CD and look what happened there. And so on.
Over half a million layoffs so far this year and what are these people
going
to do to earn a living?
With the politicians pulling our chains on the energy thing by
artificially
making oil scarce, they may be, in fact, promoting innovation. Not means
of
finding alternative sources of energy, but maybe a completely different
life-style paradigm ****ft.
Is anybody here seeing anything like a breakthrough to the future?
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