The Lifecycle of a Breakthrough — from digitaltonto.com by Greg Satell
Excerpt:
When we look back through history, we see a series of inventions. It seems obvious to us that things like the internal combustion engine and electricity would change the world. Still, as late as 1920, roughly 40 years after they were invented, most American’s lives remained unchanged. For practical purposes, the impact of those two breakthroughs were negligible.
What made the difference wasn’t so much the inventions themselves, but the ecosystems that form around them. For internal combustion engines it took a separate networks to supply oil, to build roads, manufacture cars and ships and so on. For electricity, entire industries based on secondary inventions, such as household appliances and radios, needed to form to fully realize the potential of the underlying technology.
From DSC:
I wonder what our learning ecosystems will look 5-10 years from now…?
#learningfromthelivingclassroom
#learningecosystems
