Innovation Addiction: The NEW drug of Choice

Addiction is an animal “thing”—it’s an unpleasant human disposition for some people.  In fact, there are a few experts that make a point to say every person on this planet has some form of addition.  It could be addicted to TV, sweets, news feeds, social media, gaming, gambling, alcohol, drugs, sex, money, food, traveling, work, another person, sports, ice cream, GOT, and the lists go on and on and on. 

Innovation addiction is relatively new, but from the time the first Space Invaders consoles hit the college campuses, the fire of seduction was ignited.  And, while addiction is often characterized as an individual issue or a demographic grouping, it can also be a corporate concern or an industry obsession.  Beyond individuals, the demand for data, big data by current classifications, is all encompassing in a world coming to be dominated by artificial intelligence.  As intelligence multipliers expand, so does the exponential volumes needed to train and feed these human created algorithms of hidden complexity and growing capabilities.