Simple Innovative Ideas

Throughout history, some of the most innovative technologies came from very simple ideas from supposedly simple people. Take the internet for example; currently, the internet is so vast and complex that no single person could ever view the entire internet in their lifetime. They simply do not have enough time. In fact, three-hundred hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute! At that rate, nobody could ever watch all the videos on YouTube, and that's just YouTube; there are hundreds of millions more websites on the internet. If you would like to see more crazy YouTube stats, go to this website.

Surprisingly, the internet started out with a very simple idea. In 1962, J. C. R. Licklider first presented the idea of a global network of computers, describing the idea as a galactic network of computers. Such a simple idea, yet that idea led to the one of the greatest enabling tools of all time. 

Although an innovative idea may be simple, the process of creating and pursuing an idea is often quite complex. The daunting complexity and amount of work needed to make an innovation a reality are the main roadblocks to innovation. Innovation includes an idea and then acting on that idea to make it a reality. Let us, the innovators of the world, not allow fear to stop further innovation in our world; even if our original idea may seem surprisingly simple.