"Every innovation has a human inspiration attached to it. Some might be coincidental but most of them arise out of the passion and needs of the people who willingly sacrifice their time and efforts to get it done."

“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.” Ronald Reagan simply explains how human intervention is necessary to develop something unique and make it acceptable for the world. It’s we humans who will be the end users of those new developments or the innovations as we know them. Every innovation has a human inspiration attached to it. Some might be coincidental but most of them arise out of the passion and needs of the people who willingly sacrifice their time and efforts to get it done.

Had it not been for the death of Richard Lindon’s wife, we might be still playing with a football that was plum in shape and made of lungs of animals. It would not have been possible for Henry Ford to make an automobile accessible to the general masses if he had not spent his childhood in a small machine shop experimenting. Without the human touch, everything in this world is nothing but decomposing material. In today’s competitive world it is very difficult to make people share their knowledge or even their feelings. Sometimes it is the weirdest and rudest feelings that lead to innovation. Shuji Nakamura, the inventor of Light Emitting Diodes, found a way to accomplish his invention only after he was angry with his boss who joked and laughed at the idea of inventing something called the LED bulbs and screen displays. Mr. Nakamura won a Nobel Prize for his invention in the year 2014.

Converting tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge is what the world needs today to achieve new heights of innovation. There are ideas flowing in people’s mind, which is exactly what I mean by ‘inspiration is everywhere’. Our previous generations were always curious to go the extra mile and meet different people with different ideas. We are all aware of their achievements in times when there was no internet, no social media, or mobile phones and computers. They still made an effort to reach out to the unreachable

Today we have got it all; from mobiles to laptops, internet to television, and cars to planes flying from city to city, but in an efforts to bring people together, we are actually becoming more distant. When was the last time you heard that something unique was invented because 2 friends were experimenting on something different? The thing to change this situation is a change of heart. In years and years of development, we have gained a lot in technology and resources but have we lost that human touch? At this pace, the day is not far when development will only be a competition, even if it is at the cost of humanity.