Saving the World Before Breakfast: Keys for You to Invent & Innovate
Carlson, Roger
Synopsis "Saving the World Before Breakfast: Keys for You to Invent & Innovate"
Invention is getting an idea and making it work ... once.But, invention is just the start. Innovation is doing the largerlong-term work of making that invention work reliably andrepeatedly-then succeeding at the harder task of convincingpeople to use it. We need both invention and innovation.People have thrived on this planet because they invented andinnovated around dangers. They faced dangers of cold anddangerous predators such as lions and bears. They learned tocapture fire, maintain it, and even start it fresh for warmth, forcooking more digestible food, and for chasing away thosepredators. That was a series of inventions that people adoptedand developed as part of the much bigger set of energyinnovations. Those innovations led to furnaces, foundries, cars, and civilization in general.When wood grew scarce in the 1600s, people in Great Britainbuilt better stoves and got serious about mining coal. To bettermine the coal, they developed steam engines to pump waterfrom the mines. There were many steam engines, but JamesWatt designed a much, much better steam engine. Watt, themechanic, and his entrepreneurial business partner, MathewBoulton, were an entrepreneurial team who birthed theIndustrial Revolution of steam railroads and factories.21st Century new dangers include potential excessiveclimate warming crop failures caused by that warming, andexhaustion of certain key resources. Some of the innovationsneeded are described in the forthcoming Saving the WorldBefore Breakfast: The Earth Alone Can Save Us by this author.The quotes in this book are here to inspire you with thewisdom and success of innovators who succeeded. A fewprovide humor at those who scoffed at any chance of success.Finally, they are included to warn you of the hard road aheadlest you take on tasks that may be impossible, but to encourageyou if you do take that road
