Innovation Vs Invention
Opportunity and Genius
Innovations and Inventions, well, they are not the same.
I got hold of a book by Vaclav Smil published by MIT. Vaclav is an author most read by Bill Gates who can't get enough of his works it seems.
The book is called "Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure" and is brief and less than 200 pages if you exclude research references and citations.
Innovation definitely does work for many in all fields and varied industry but then there is the true genius of invention.
Anyways, with technology and AI and dead actors growing rapidly in Hollywood movies--we might just see a live action Garfield movie, much akin to the “The Jungle Book” movie directed by Jon Favreau. After all, Garfield is a much more suitable, and even believable subject than Mowgli in 21st century. Well, not if you are a doomsdayer or someone who preps for the fallout by living off the grid already—then you need to have a Jungle Book of your own to write and record.
Check out the latest bestselling non-fiction book by Vaclav Smil at
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0262048051/
…And the new Garfield movie starring Chris Pratt and Samuel L Jackson in cinema halls.
If neither interest you, pick up a random Garfield comic strip or better yet-- pick up a stray cat and pet it till they follow you home.
The Surprisingly Simple Reason Jim Davis Created the Garfield Comic Strip
Garfield creator Jim Davis started cartooning as a child on a farm near Marion, Indiana, when he spent a lot of days homebound because of bad asthma. He made his mother laugh with his drawings and kept doodling to make her smile. Lots of his early drawings were of the farm animals, like cows and horses, but he also drew some of the dogs and 25 cats on the property.
The origins of Garfield’s constantly hungry purrsonality can be traced to that of Davis, who has always loved lasagna just like the fictional cat. “I put Garfield on diets when I go on diets. I love food,” Davis confessed to The Boston Globe in 2003. But he says he sees himself the most in Garfield’s owner Jon because he’s “a daydreamer” and “a wishy-washy optimist” who has trouble getting dates (a problem Davis says he had in college).