Do you know why the technology product life cycles are measured only in months? Why are some of their amazing features almost be impossible to use?
Let us consider the mobile phones. Have you ever tried to use the acclaimed web browsing feature from a cell phone or tried to plug it in your notebook? Or ever counted how many clicks n commands it takes to access any function on your cell phone? Ever have you made a “conference call”? Even if you know that this feature exists. Don’t you?
Ok let us take the case of cameras. Many of us are using multi-million pixel cameras. Once you are back from your vacation, how do you sort the pictures? How do you actually know what a picture contains in which all the file names are given cryptic numbers? Trust to arrange them and make an album of them? If you are using a much vaunted camera phone, should it not be easier to download these pictures directly to a wire free device that can make prints for you?
Even though Printing is an easier task how difficult can it be to print address labels in fabulous 300-dpi colors’ at 10pages per minute? But wait. If you want to print directly on envelopes using Microsoft outlooks contact list, you cannot do it unless you first create a mail merge document a task as easy and enjoyable as changing the spark plugs on your car every time you want to start it.
The lesson is that while hardware and software technology companies are far more sophisticated today than they were a decade ago, they have been so busy. Inventing that they have not paid enough attention to “INNOVATION”.
Innovation is the process of applying ingenious ideas to great inventions so that they become usable by normal people like us. For example when Timberness Lee invented the internet. It was largely useless to most of us till innovators like MarkAndressen of Netscape. LeryYang of Yahoo! And designs of others created applications that opened doors to this brand new world. It was the “INNOVATIVE” adaptation of a simple hard drive technology that brought us the i pod.
So let us hope that this coming decade is one where innovation finally overtakes invention
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New blog post: INNOVATION V/S INVENTION http://bit.ly/1g9Gjo