"my gut feeling is that we need 0 innovation to tackle at least 90% of the problems that challenge our societies, us as individuals and humanity as a whole. We just need to grow up and start doing the actual work."
(Original title: Innovation is a distraction)
https://tante.cc/2025/02/03/innovation-is-a-distraction/
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@tante While I agree with your sentiment, I think it can be worthwhile to think about innovation in different ways. Innovation is often used to mean invention, especially when it comes to technology, but invention is only a small part of innovation. Building new business models, or adapting technology and business models to new situations, is the main part of innovation.
Inventing new tech to solve the climate crisis is of course bullshit, but using existing tech in novel ways to solve the climate crisis is also innovation. We probably need to think outside of the narrow business sense as well, but changing society still requires innovation.
We need disruptive innovations, not in the sense of a new app, but as something that disrupts the fossil fuel economy.
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@audunmb @tante My take would be that innovation, and associated notions of progress and efficiency obscure actual solutions, that we know work, that are not sexy, require work, but are actually better solutions. Think of processed food: innovative yet more expensive, less nourishing even harmful. By eating fast food you do not acquire cooking skills, miss out on sharing culture etc. Or think using an app instead of asking for directions cuts you out from other people and their experiences.
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