General Discussion

the SS check systems already don't print checks. But they still figure out how much that person is due and sends it to them on time.

Ford did some very good things. I think his innovation was more akin to standardization of parts so that each piece didn't have to be hand fit. But then that innovation had already been done years before in armaments and he just applied it to automobiles.

If all the principles behind semiconductors hadn't been developed just where would the PC have been? The PC was enabled with the development of semiconductors. Once that occurred the PC was inevitable.

BTW, the iPhone "innovation" touted last year by Apple was the color choice. It wasn't an analogy.

You still haven't identified any innovation...just enhancements of existing technology -- like the iPhone color.

Oh, and the web guy? He wasn't an American.

What do you say about my disagreeing with the idea of trying to categorize the advancement or stagnaton of our culture in terms of some "generational" people metric? As I keep saying and which you say is a misdiagnosis, the problem is the environment in which we operate today in this country. The one where innovation is stifled by entrenched corporate interests that are protecting their product using monopolistic tactics.