Innovation is the child of freedom because it is a free, creative attempt to satisfy freely expressed human desires. This reliance on freedom explains why innovation cannot easily be planned as neither human wishes nor the means of their satisfaction are easy to anticipate in the detail required. Why nobody really knows how to cause innovation, because no one can make people want something. We would not be able to live prosperous lives and have such low child mortality and long life spans if it weren't for innovations like vaccination,. which is a beautiful example of a technology that has ably large upsides and extremely small downsides despite ther worries of male people.