"After the Industrial revolution's two hundred years of inventing more and better products, we may have come to a point where certain products have reached their zenith. We may have come to the point of diminishing returns. We may have reached perfection. We may have reached the point where using more resources may actually make us less happy - where there may not be any more progress to be had.
Continuing to do what we've done for the past two hundred years is not progress. It's more of the same. Staying on the same path is not the definition of progress.
I simply feel that now that we've so utterly perfected the walkie-talkie to the point where it has become the iPhone, maybe we could turn the great minds that brought us the Nintendo Wii to, say, getting fresh water to the 1 billion people on our planet who don't have it."
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