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Where Real Innovation Happens
Tim O'Reilly in an interview with Forbes magazine makes some interesting points on where real innovation happens.
Tim asks, "So where's the alpha-geek innovation happening today? I see it bubbling up in areas like manufacturing, open-source hardware, sensor networks and robotics."
He calls these people "alpha geeks." They are smart enough to make technology do what they want rather than what its originator expected. The alpha geeks exercise an idea or a gadget, pushing it past its current limits, reinventing it and eventually paving the way for entrepreneurs who figure out how to create mainstream versions of their novel ideas.
For example consider Greenbox, a start-up founded by Jonathan Gay, one of the creators of the ubiquitous Flash technology for online video and animation. He built an "off the grid" house (mainly because it was too expensive to bring power to his remote location). He designed some tools to visualize and manage his home power consumption--then realized that they could become the basis of a new business.
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