Innovate or Stagnate

I hear people complaining a lot about jobs going overseas and why the company’s that are doing more business overseas don’t realize where the market is. The complainers’ presumption is that the only markets exist here in the US. That’s pretty arrogant considering the reality of the global marketplace.

Sorry, but I think they do realize who the tech savvy people are that buy their products; 100’s of millions of newly networked people in India and China. Unless we remain the most tech savvy country, by applying ourselves individually to an on-going reeducation program, we will end up picking up the crumbs. The beauty of it is that we can. But will we? We cannot expect to stay on top by grumbling about jobs going overseas. We can stay on top by getting back to the basics of math, science, engineering and applying them to innovation.

Kennedy proposed putting a man on the moon. The result was the technology behind the computer today. We need to embrace a new vision; one that will catapult us into the next series of technical breakthroughs. A natural proposal is developing new energy sources and the ramifications will be astounding as that goal is reached.

The DOE had better get out of the way and let the people who know how pave the way for future energy solutions. Some exist right now if we will take advantage of them.

Interestingly, at the time of this post the DOE site cannot be reached.