Innovation

Patrice Filichy in his reading The Internet Imaginary engagees in his reading three underlining principles on innovation. The three include The sociotechnique network approach which basically means that innovation can start anywhere and not in the mind of some brilliant person. Next is the Project Concept where the main underlining idea derives from project management, and constant compensation, and finally the idea of The boundary-object concept which basically "allows cooperation to be organized between actors with different points of view and knowledge, without overlooking their individual competencies, by adopting a common approach" (Flichy).

In class we talked about innovation in such aspects such as the early stages and history of Silicon Valley. The hub of the technological world built entirely on innovation. Looking in todays society, this idea of innovation is crucial in the information capitalistic world we live in to fuel not only our economy, but our society as well. It is because of innovative qualities such as Silicon Valley that we are exposed to the major technological breakthroughs that we as society indulge in everyday.

Below I have posted a link that take a different approach to explaining innovation, with this in mind, what are your thoughts on the innovative notions mentioned in Flichys reading and can you think of a recent innovation that has really made an impact in our information capitalistic society?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiyMkOfycOg