Some More Ammunition...

A. 2 Ideas abt Innovation
Include to Innovate
Does this require explanation? No. We all know people often can surprise us with what they can do while given an opportunity. This cliche requires lots of practices, labor to weed out our ego and vanity.
cognitive diversity
What is diversity? Different skin colors different background different nationality? How about people in the same neighborhood in the same company but spending weekends reading different stuff & interacting with different people behind computer screens? Internet is changing everything (yeah another cliche), including the definition of diversity. Think about it.

B. Why changes just don't happen in our world?
1. People are lazy;
2. People think others ("they" or "??? NGO") will/should take care of the world for them;
3. People are willing to give 150% & sacrifice Only for things they have strong emotional connections to.

Forget about 1 & 2, it's 3 that makes a difference.

C. another perspective on "How to maximize efficient usage of talents (to change our world)?"
Do Not burden Devoted Baby Seal Rescuers with Guilt and Obligation to save war victims.

D. in search for ideas abt Next-generation Markets
Selling ideas like selling peanuts just won't work anymore, but we human beings are good at dragging...delaying changes...we make do with status quo until we have to innovate or die...

Why people can make a living selling ideas? Because they attach ideas to tangible things like books or CDs (whose markets are as tangible as markets for peanuts). Because they attach ideas to "live" experience (confined by time & space) like a concert or seminar. However it's not news that we no longer need to pay for the copyright to read about your brilliant ideas, we no longer have to buy the tickets to see you from 150 meters to get motivated...

Copyright laws just increase social costs,especially in an era of the Web. It's not incentive compatible (many things are not,by the way), how long into the future can it work?

We human beings have been buying and selling intangibles using the market concept based on tangible goods for a long long time...can we do it for another century or will we be thrown into total confusion in 10 years and forced to innovate + create a Next-generation Market for ideas?

There's no answer yet at this moment, but we do have a box to jump and think out of...

Will you be part of the innovation?