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We Have Stopped Inventing New Technology

New Polity

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Innovation Is a Totem Pole in the Direction of Modernity

iReporters have observed many times the great technological advances, and maybe we can be grateful for this, seem to lie further and further off. While our culture consists of a bunch of recycled tropes, which became painfully evident to me when i star walking in coffee shops a few years ago. And in the last year, a new found and dis bling aversion to risk, a does not seem to be present in this room. This praise of innovation comes from a very deep source within the modern tradition. But its assumption of pole position in the direction of modernity is belied by something much more serious than that. It's self undermining the establishment of innovation, disruption and change as the totem

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