TED AFYON COLLEGE / 9-C
A Short History of Innovation and What Innovation Will Bring in the Future
Hakan Mert ÇAĞLAYAN
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The history of innovation goes back to the earliest periods of humanity. Because in fact, every new idea and every new invention is an innovation. Innovation has directly contributed to the evolution of the human brain over time. That’ s because the simple innovations that ancient people made, such as lighting a fire or creating microliths by hitting one stone against another stone, paved the way for the huge knowledge that humanity has today and developed the human brain. In addition to the biological contributions of innovation, innovation later became a part of people’ s lives with the invention of simple machines so much; so that people started not to be able to do their jobs without innovations.
They have even crossed the borders of the Earth and travelled into space.
When we look closer to the present day, people have started to innovate in basic sciences and still continue to do this today. In fact, this is the second turning point in the history of innovation, because the fact that people turned to the basic sciences gave rise to modern inventions and innovations. For example, today people have connected the whole world with inventions such as radio, television and the internet. They also shortened long distances with inventions such as automobiles and airplanes.
Looking to the future, it is possible to see that innovations such as today’ s artificial intelligence revolutions and new generation electric motors can change the future. In the future, innovation can extend human lifespan with precision medicine, provide new renewable energy sources and enable deep space travel, but it is also likely to make people dependent on artificial intelligence, just as the simple machine revolution and the industrial revolution made people dependent on them.