Clip from the 1967 film 1999 A.D. in which we see the family of the future shopping, paying bills and using electronic mail from home.

There are a few prerequisites to inventing…. You have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to think long term. You have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time. If you can’t do those three things, you need to limit yourself to sustaining innovation…. You typically don’t get misunderstood for sustaining innovation.

- Jeff Bezos (via tedr)

In the race to innovate, most organizations forget a simple but fundamental economic truth. A new process, product, service, business design, or strategy can only be described as an innovation if it results in (or is the result of) authentic, durable economic gains.”

- Umair Haque: Is Your Innovation Really Unnovation?

- Andrew Weissman - Re: the backlash to Google Wave (via john)

A quote from Jordan Golson’s post, Google Climbs to New Heights of Arrogance With Wave

Google has a long history of launching or buying projects, only to get bored and abandon them months or years later. With Wave, as with so many Google projects, the company seems to be flinging things against the wall to see what sticks. No real thought has been given to its future beyond, “Wouldn’t it be cool if…?” When asked about marketing Wave during the launch Q&A, the Google reps said “We really haven’t thought about that too much.” What about advertising? “We haven’t thought about that yet.” What about competition? “It’s not something we really thought a lot about.” So what have the Googlers thought about?

How is this a wrong approach? We’ll still be using altavista and excite if Larry and Sergey focused on answering these questions vs aiming to “organize the world’s information.” I’m really disappointed to see this post featured on gigaom.

“The world of computing has changed, profoundly, yet so many of our applications bear the burden of decades of old thinking. We need to challenge our assumptions and re-imagine the tools we take for granted.”

- Tim O’Reilly (http://awes.me/google/wave/)