How Do We View Innovations to Day?

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Some innovations some people fear to day that i'm like, oh, no, this is already here. But then there are certain innovations, as you mention, like space tourism, where i'm just really hard for me to wrap my head around. For a long time we didn't know if humans could run under a four minute mile. Then right after the first person did it, like dozens of people did it in the next year. People associate fear with them because they just don't know what's going to happen.

What do airplanes, railroads, and jazz music have in common? They were all innovations that people feared.

In fact, if you look into any key technology shift from the past, you'll find a wealth of fear, uncertainty, and doubt surrounding it. And while this shouldn't be surprising, we can still learn from the skeptics of the past.

We can learn just how difficult it is to predict what's to come and look toward our future with a humble perspective, an acceptance that we probably will get it wrong again.

In this episode, Calvin and Steph talk through how people viewed inventions seemingly as innocuous as the bicycle or teddy bear, what we can learn from these stories, and how to stay open minded and capitalize on opportunities as technology takes us into the future.