Thursday 2 October 2014

All "Subject to Change" by Dr. Strive Masiyiwa.

Many years ago, I attended an event to honour Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com. He is one of the most brilliant entrepreneurs of this generation. A truly remarkable man, whom I greatly admire for his work. As he was being interviewed he talked about what had inspired him to develop the "Kindle". It is one of my favourite tech tools, and I carry one everywhere I go.

Something he said, really resonated with me:
"Let's not forget that a "BOOK" is an invention. It has been one of the most successful inventions of all time, but it is still an invention."

How many of us, look at something, like a book, and think to ourselves:
"Someone actually invented this."

Often when you have a successful invention that has endured a long time, people begin to think, is came off the Ark with Noah. Yes, there was a time, when there was no book.