TED İZMİR COLLEGE / 9-B
The
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Innovation( an unimaginatively titled creation.)
Melis ÖZKAN
Our lives are full of other people’ s ideas. Everything from the cosy, bitterly warm sensation of coffee in freezing winter to the pitifully deformed‘ meatballs’ native to the school cafeteria is the result of countless other people’ s innovation, their ideas having piled up into the treasure trove of information our era proudly presents today. This is evident in every part of our lives, from every piece of man-made object to anything touched by humanity; one of humanity’ s greatest achievements is the sheer level of documented thought accumulated throughout history.
This knowledge has greatly impacted our lives; we wouldn’ t be the same without it. No firm houses, no comfortable bedding, no expertly crafted dishes. Can you imagine living without ever hearing music or sitting in a single chair? Without the comforts our built-up knowledge grants us, we would be nothing more than cavemen. If humanity had never possessed this ability to‘ innovate,’ we’ d live with the simplicity of monkeys. Innovation is a defining feature of humanity. better foresight could contain. A positive will always come packaged with a negative, so it’ s worthwhile to consider an idea’ s complications before putting it into action.
The tradition of innovation is undoubtedly continued today. In the medical, political, social, and scientific fields, it stubbornly perseveres, improving our lives and revealing enlightening new notions. However, with improvement comes unintended consequences. Like how AI’ s launch caused a wave of AIgenerated papers, innovation can result in repercussions that
Although innovation comes with liabilities, it does not mean people should stop inventing. Invention furthers most of society; it’ s what keeps us going. Hopefully, we will continue to change, grow, and invent with reasonable measures and enough time to adapt to the inevitable tsunami of consequences.