INNOVATION Most meaningful innovation that benefits mankind consists of decrease

INNOVATION
Most meaningful innovation that benefits mankind consists of decreases in the cost of energy, decreases in the cost of distance, decreases in the cost of cooperation, decreases in the cost of knowledge, and decreases in the cost of time and/or some combination of those decreases.

This framing is important because it deprives us of the pretense of endless growth. Instead, we approach the minimum possible cost for the maximum possible return across all those dimensions of decreases.