INVENTIONS FROM BARELY UNEDUCATED PEOPLE

INVENTIONS FROM BARELY UNEDUCATED PEOPLE

The only thing that unites the educated and uneductated is innovation.
Great debate is whether innovative abilities are studied or just natural.
In the most simplified and dignified manner, these abilities develop
naturally through proper ways of livings. Meaning that everyone has
the ability to be innovative. And this ability grows depending on your
greater need to serve and to love. Call it what you'd but it is
normally called Christ-love.

Great innovations come from an inventor with a greater purpose.
Many inventors are not really inventors but mere copycats who
only selfishly seek to earn a living.

In Uganda, the major talking point are our people at a place called Katwe,
where many little things have been made by barely uneducated
ones in the field.
And these things have been called innovations. In actual sense they
are not innovations, it's merely being a copycat...just as the Asians
have copied all the western technology.

In the Asian's case, however, their copying sometimes surpasses the original.
And in most cases they get a direct helping hand from the educated through governmental support programmes where the overall result is affordability
to all whereas the Katwe people have been mainly for their stomachs hence
no advancement.
While in the case of Europe and America, inventions from the uneducated
take a slightly different twist. Most of these are not just copycats but new or
modifications to the established. And the western law has protected their
inventions through patenting. Great inventors like Faraday who
never passed through formal education were protected by such
intellectural property laws.
This gives a pretty good idea of how great-governments arise.
Great governments do not arise by merely making strong money policies but
by also providing various conduits for technology distribution/transfer to all.
Sometime in the future, patenting will also be strong enough in your country.

--> Nathan's collections of Apr.2009
MSc.Structural Engineering(Tongji Univ. Shanghai, China)
BSc.Civil Engineering (Makerere Univ, Kampala, Uganda)
Member IABSE, UIPE, SEAINT
d-nathan@engineer.com