INVENTION as the pillar of technology
Of 1000 generations in the last 40,000 years:
> 800 lived without artificial shelters in woods and caves
~ 120 have known and used the wheel
~ 55 have known and used the Archimedes law
~ 40 have used windmills and watermills
~ 20 have known and used timepieces
~ 10 have known printing
~ 7 have traveled via trains
~ 5 have used electric lights and known Mendelian genetics
~ 4 have traveled with automobiles, used telephones and vacuum cleaners
~ 3 have traveled with aircraft, used radios, and known DNA's structure
~ 2 have traveled in outer space and used atomic energy
Only today's generation has used personal computers, the internet, and biotechnology
90 % of the knowledge and material values in humanity's history were developed in the 20th century!
INVENTION (discovery) ------------------> INNOVATION (commercialization)
Patent-induced innovation-based societies???