TED BURSA COLLEGE / 8-B
Innovation
Deniz ÖZGÜR
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What would happen if we didn’ t innovate at all? Could we still progress, or would we succumb to natural selection? Luckily, we don’ t have to know the answer to that question because there are many great minds all over the world uncovering those things that we once thought were impossible. For example,“ the phone”, no one even could conjure up such a majestic device in their minds, let alone build it. That was, until Alexander Graham Bell made the first phone, it was one of the first practical communication devices ever made, now evolved into the thing we spend most of our time with:“ the smartphone”. If you can read this text, just know that it has gone through countless different inventions, sprouting from many minds just for you to read it. If it weren’ t for these things, you probably wouldn’ t be able to read this, and that’ s why I think all new things that humans make, bring us closer to the pinnacle of mankind where no noticeable problem exists, and all actions take little to no time to complete. And by that point we will have so much time that only things we can think of are new, better, and more efficient solutions to replace the old innovations, but eventually new and harder problems will rise out of the things we made and get us to innovate once more; thus repeating the loop. By this point, you would have realized that innovations sprout out of problems, from brave minds that bend the realm of possibility to fix that problem. We might think that innovation is hard, but no, even you could find something. Although it may not be as grand as things like the television, it could still fix a problem of someone, somewhere. Maybe a flying chair? Maybe a hovering car? Your imagination is the only limit of what you can make up in your mind, and if it’ s good enough, someone will help you make that by giving you money. Most governments have associations that do these kinds of stuff, in Türkiye we have TÜBİTAK and in other countries, they have some of their own, so don’ t be afraid to go out there and show everyone what your mind came up with, as that is exactly how humanity progressed, and how it will progress onwards to new heights.