March 3rd, 2010
Hydrogen Convergence via Innovation-Infrastructure
Earlier this week, we at the ebTDesign Forum proposed a timeline for massive carbon reduction using hydrogen convergence. At the top of that list was the goal of establishing a national innovation-infrastructure for hydrogen convergence by 2012. Many of you may not be familiar with the concept of an innovation-infrastructure and why it is so important to post-Globalization adoption.
An innovation-infrastructure provides a community with peripheral vision or the means of identifying and utilizing bright new ideas from the fringes of the organizational space. Peripheral vision provides human beings with the capability of detecting motion that is outside our general field of view. It is our number one means of triggering flight or fight mechanisms.
Post-Globalization, an innovation-infrastructure provides hydrogen convergence colonies with the necessary feedback loop for navigating the changing investment landscape. An example of why this is so important can be seen in the decision by the DOE to cancel hydrogen projects last year. If the DOE had had a functioning innovation-infrastructure, it would have detected the extremely high level of creative activity and known that its goals were being met.
Zachary Alexander
Concepts: hydrogen, Innovation-Infrastructure, periphery vision, post-Globalization