Some thoughts on innovation
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A meeting of canal owners debate the threat of the steam train !
Why would coal want to travel @ 60mph?
We paid for our progress with destructive ‘food-to-waste’ cycles !
Transforming raw materials into products to be buried later is unsustainable...
Mother nature does ‘food-to-waste-to-food’....and so should we if we want a sustainable future
...and this begs the question, “could we do the same?”
The only potential to do this is with technology that sits at the juncture of....
ITC
NanoBio
The new industrial
revolution sits here
FTTH/FTTO and The Cloud
To participate we need high speed connectivity + access to computational power...
So, what makes innovation fly ?
A good idea A good leader & a good team
A seductive business plan
Supportive investors
You need a visionaries and risk takers...
...but there is a fine line between calculated risks and doing something really dumb!