Why are new innovations so slow to be accepted? Consider......
The cultural mind-set.
The myth is that innovators (users, engineers and scientists) are
selfless truth-seekers whose hearts and minds are always open to new ideas.
However, scientists are skeptical, engineers are theoretical, users
demanding and while management "bean count." Nobel Prize-winning physicist
Max Planck said: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its
opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents
eventually die, and a new generation grows up that has been familiar with
the idea from their youth."
So what one generation rejects can become another's solution.
Elaine
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Elaine T. Hunt, Director
Clemson University Laboratory to Advance Industrial Prototyping
206 Fluor Daniel Bldg. Clemson, SC 29643-0925
864-656-0321 (voice) 864-656-4435 (fax)
elaine.hunt@ces.clemson.edu
http://chip.eng.clemson.edu/rp/persall/elaine.html
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