Opinion: Innovation for a disruptive world
Innovation is a much overused word in the electronics industry and innovation is closely associated with disruption. Both phenomena are always linked to a vision. Some come to pass, such as Arthur C. Clarke’s 1945 vision of geostationary satellites, and others such as Alex Lewyt’s 1955 revelation of a nuclear-powered vacuum cleaner may never come to fruition.
Great visions are often counterintuitive, scary or just plain annoying.
However, many of us seek such ideas (and invest significant amounts of money) to help drive businesses, re-elect governments and improve people’s lives. Whatever we seek, we have to react to disruption when it happens, as too many good ideas have simply withered on the vine due to the risk associated with being different. We have to believe in people like Alan Turing and back them in their time, not wait for periods when the appetite for risk is driven by less savory catalysts, such as war.
Technology has the opportunity to help people, and that is enough. The question is, which disruptive technologies should we back and how should we do it?
What excites me at the moment?
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Mike Muller
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