2 weeks ago, Singapore petrochemical industry got a big boost after 2 biodiesel plants are going to be built in the island worth about 100million dollars. Before I start to jump in joy because that means more job opportunities for me, we should really start to see where we are going. Not just you and me but the entire development of mankind.
Investing that amount of money can means 2 things. One, we are focusing on relying on biofuels and secondly, every countries and corporations are trying to monopolize this trend and developing nations are also jumping onto the bandwagon. So what about it?
We all know petroleum is going to run out pretty soon and we are aware we need to find a solution before our cars and fighter jets could not move. Looking at the alternative energy sources we came out with, apparently we are TOO focused on biofuels and hydrogen powered vehicles. If we observe closely, our generation has lose the ability to innovate because all these years, we are only care to develop that few ideas as corporations are trying to compete to see who develop it faster, make a big hype of it and the race continues.
This simply means we are forgetting to think outside the box.
What happens when we are too innovative?
From the issue of Fortune this week, Google has decided to build a revolutionary phone that is open source and operates on a totally new platform. We all know Microsoft cannot innovate, just look at our window vista and their attempt to build a new platform called window mobile for smartphones. They are so buggy. Apple, an icon of innovation requires so many years to re define how a computer should work. But Google who has most of the brightest minds on board has decided to launch something revolutionary in such short period of time(to fight back against iphone), can Google be called innovative then? Well at least the editor at Fortune would not say they will make it big, at least not near future. All we will possibly get would be a handheld with more barrages of ads.
I think Google start with a right direction. Instead of copying or mimic’ing other platform by enhancing them, they decided to design something new. But they could plan it better and give themselves a little more time.
Innovation takes time but we need to be able to think outside the box. Our rigid education system had robbed us off our creativity. Now it is time for us to sit back and reflect. Have I done something innovative today?
