Is innovation in adult dead? And why?

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Originally Posted by sarettah

Ah, here my Tampa friend I dsagree with you.

A creation is an invention.

An invention does not have to be totally new, it can be a recombining of exisitng things in a new way that produces a new product.

In your example with the Orange and a strainer you have not invented a new product, after all Orange Juice has been around since the first Orange. However, you have created a new method for getting at the Orange Juice, no longer do I have to peel the Orange and get rid of the crap to get at the juice, now it can be packaged in a glass, a bottle or any other type of container. So while the parts you used were not new and in reality the product produced was not new the combination of the parts to produce the product (Orange Juice without the Orange) is new. The methodology you used is the invention.

There are a lot of inventions to getting orange juice into the box and onto your table....not the least of which is the box...the materials created and the processes to make the box. The hundreds of patents to make sure the juice is safe to drink. The thousands of patents involved in growing the oranges in sufficient quantity to produce juice at a commercial level. The hundreds of thousands of patents involved in constructing the roads and manufacturing the cars and metal to transport the juice. Hell, all inventions rely on previous invention. I wonder what the first invention was. It would surely be the only pure invention. I guess Rcourt never got out of kinder garden because he can't even spell it. BTW, that is the great thing about adult. You can be a moron and still make a living. It is kind of an equal opportunity industry. Of that we should be proud.