Out of Sight
#2132
I’ve been carrying a question for years now.
It started when I was writing my book about innovation. It comes back without warning — this morning, for no reason I can name.
Take the air conditioner. Brilliant engineering. It makes hot places livable.
But physics is a stubborn accountant. The heat doesn’t vanish. It gets pushed onto the street, warming the pavement, raising the city’s temperature, until the next building buys a bigger unit to keep up.
We do this everywhere. We sweep the dust under the rug and call the floor clean.
What I can’t shake is this: how much of what we call progress is really just relocation? And if it is, can we do something different? Can we innovate without moving the problem somewhere else?
And you know what? I believe it’s possible.
But not from inside the box that created the problem.