A Walk Down The (Innovation) Park 🏞️🛝
A trip back to how it all started and how it's going today
Hello Innovator!
In case you missed it, last week, we did an innovative medical outreach to get us ready for the year. This week get ready for an innovative history lesson 🤓. You are welcome.
The Lead innovator at Consonance in the person of Kelvin Umechukwu has made it known that the vision for the year is to inspire techies to build and be innovative.
As a matter of fact, Consonance is going full-blown innovation (more details soon). In light of this, we would do a little “Back to basics” on innovation before we get into the more recent innovation of the internet and all the technology companies you know and love that comes with it.
Therefore I offer my apologies in advance if the dust from the books on the history shelves we would be reading from today makes you sneeze.
Where were we?
You must have learned a few attributes of the Faradays and Musks of this world in our last issue, if you missed it, do well to check it here. To further inspire you along the parts of innovation, let's discuss inventions in real-time
Now a single device called a phone serves as our calendar, Alarm clock, Camera, telephone, and so much more but you know it wasn't always like this. Let's take a look at how each of these no-big-deal of the many functions of the phone came about to see how far the human race has come in terms of innovation.
The Clock
The Sundail was the very first device mankind used to tell time. It was first created and used by the Egyptians. It worked by creating a shadow from the sun that was used to line up with a certain line written with the time of the day.
No joke, this thing (clock) looks like a chopped tree with an axe in it (who said it's not) 😂. And the rest they say is history.
The Clock evolved from the Sundial, the hourglass, and the locket, to the wall clock, and the wristwatch
I like to call it the Time Machine. We can't talk about the time machine, without a little bit of travel back in time. A journey back in time would always bring us back to the present and sometimes give insights into the future.
What do you say? We turn back the hands of time or we race with more innovation into the future.
I say, we should go for more innovation in the future.
The Camera
I have to admit that when I first saw this, I thought I had accidentally landed on a World War II website, lol. I mean how do you explain this giant of an image-capturing device?
I most certainly cannot explain it, but according to the history books you are looking at a pioneer of what you know to be a camera today.
What?
Believe it or not, innovation doesn't start as conveniently as you thought. Ironically it becomes better with frequent modification and time. Needless to say that there are still so many inventions today that can be modified.
The first camera invented is Camera Obscura. It is a Latin word, which means “darkroom” or “dark chamber”. It also has no clear inventor. We know that it pre-dates what we know to be the origin of photography.
The oldest known writings about Camera obscura are by Han Chinese scholar Mozi (c. 470 to c.391 BC)
The Telephone
When I entered the words “The first telephone” on Google, this was the first image that came up, so I'm going with it.
Now, back to the history books
Antonio Meucci is named the inventor of the first basic phone in 1849.
This seems to be centuries ago, if you look around you would discover that we've come a long way from these wood-like phones.
The debates these days sound more like “iPhones are better than Samsung phones.”
The Evolution
All of the aforementioned inventions now operate maximally on a single device.
Welcome to 2023! Where innovation gets even better.
What do you see in this image?
We see a yet-to-come invisible longer trail of outstanding innovation in the wake of these already-invented wheels. Remember that Consonance called it out first.
So excuse me, if I can't stop ringing the bells of the need to constantly be innovative.
Friends, what you see today in this image is a testament to the fact that the sky is indeed just the starting point. There is no such thing as limitations, cause they only exist in the mind if we let them.
The innovation of centuries all evolved decade by decade into a single device that can perform all the functions.
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