I want to take a few minutes and look at the process of technological innovation. Some people subscribe to what I think is a misconception about innovations—some think that its all one big move (or a series of small moves) relentlessly forward—BUT my belief is that every time we advance forward we actually take some temporary steps backwards. One good example comes from the history of movie-making—when sound was first introduced in the late 1920s everyone thought what a great idea—it will take film to the next level—the problem was that no one knew what “the next level” was. Before sound, the silent filmmakers like Edwin Porter, D.W. Griffith, and Charles Chaplin, to name a few, were forced to become masters of camera and editing—they had no choice—they had to learn to tell stories without words—using a purely visual medium—playing with many different camera angles, dramatic lighting, and different kinds of cutting (editing) to get their points across to audiences as quickly and spar