TECHONOMISTS: THE BIG LIST
Who is a techonomist? Here’s a list to help answer that question. Humans have been innovating since they devised the first tools, which amplified their ability to manipulate and adapt to the environment. Our list doesn’t go back quite that far, but we did compile a roster of people whose inventions or new ways of looking at the world have resulted in a qualitative surge in our species’ ability to feed and clothe itself, and in freeing people up to become even more creative and inventive. The people we chose as exemplars often created new techonomic multipliers that immediately created wealth or abundance or that facilitated new ways to increase the cumulative intellectual and productive capabilities of our civilizations. Others devised ways to improve our ability to work together. As a group, they demonstrate how one techonomic breakthrough invariably leads to others. Techonomists, then, are agents of human evolution.
