The Invention of Email

Email has since come a long way from Aug 30, 1982. It still does the usual thing of sending and receiving emails but now we have the option of internet phones and internet fax to add to the features. Celebrating this day provides all of us, especially parents, educators and policy makers an opportunity to understand the conditions, which allowed a young boy to create email, something we depend on so completely that we take it for granted. These creative conditions may provide us clues on how to unleash that field of infinite possibilities for all us, particularly our youth, to innovate and create, both locally and globally. The message is that innovation and creation are inherent to who we are and is the ultimate expression of spirit. Our current models of innovation, based on old belief systems that innovation can only take place in big universities, large companies and the military does not provide a scalable way for us to create the necessary jobs. So go out there and innovate.