Invention/Innovation Vs Repulication/Repitition..

First Series of Cellphones In Uganda...

Approximately 10 years back when cellphones flocked the Ugandan community for the very first time, you had to trade one of your valuables to purchase one [US$555]. Maintaining the phone [credit and other assorted services] was also another story, you had to trade your next valuable or you had to work much harder. With this trend only a small percentage of Ugandans could afford cellphones. The Marketing personnel called it a new Innovation in the country, was it actually?

By definition, Innovation possibly means both radical and incremental changes in thinking, in things, in processes or in services. Invention which is normally confused with Innovation. Invention gets out in to the world is innovation, if anything Invention is a new form, composition of matter, device or process. I have fallen victim of purchasing fake products and lousy services because of somebody using an enticing and misappropriated word.

Ecclesiastes 1:9-11...

That which has been is what will be,That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which it may be said, “ See, this is new”? It has already been in ancient times before us. There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of things that are to come by those who will come after.

The "new" invented products and services we do spend most of our savings on or actually take mortagages for, are they actually new invention or innovations or they are republication of what happened in the old..