Innovators are killing us

You can't just re-invent new housing or transit. You have to approach it iteratively and look at a larger time scale. Right now we're seeing new entrants applying the fact we mostly all have computers on us to create non-trivial increased market efficiency in a couple of industries.

Once these companies establish a foot hold they can generate new competitors and make even bigger waves. Uber's pool may not be how we all travel around in twenty years but I'd bet it'll look something like it. And those vehicles may not be Telsas but they'll probably be electric and have auto-updating features.

Appears to me that 'innovation has been replacing the word 'invention', best way to describe genuine scientific and technological developments.

If you accept the premise we have technological stagnation, innovation seems to solely rely on what's left of that time to grow the system that has been destroying it in the first place.

What is the author saying? That innovation cannot be commoditized?

I would go further and say that innovation shouldn't be considered a goal but rather a result (of hard work, intelligence, strategy and more).

Making innovation your primary goal is like making success your primary goal. It will give motivation but no guidance.

I was hoping for an in-depth analysis on how "innovators are killing us", instead social commentary and etymology lesson. (and a hard to follow one at that)

Gig economy is getting more spotlights these days, so any analysis based on even cursory empirical evidence would be interesting read.

I'd take offense if I knew what the hell he was talking about.

So the point is that sometime we can innovate the wrong thing.

Not useful or particularly insight.