Moonshots are those ‘once in a lifetime’ innovations that change the world as we know it and solve big problems, helping humanity. Everything that we have seen in sci-fi programs as children is now part of our lives today, and we often take it for granted.

In the last 20 years we have put all our technology or most of it on the Internet, so we now have a democracy of information that is very different than how previous human generations grew up with before. As a result, innovation is now coming from everywhere, from startups and remote labs, rather than from governments or big companies. And the latter must change the way they have been innovating in the past if they want to survive, while small companies and individuals will keep feeding them innovation.

So, can we invent differently than the way we have been doing it before?

There’s a major distinction between radical innovation and incremental innovation.

The first one is innovation unlike any that was done before, while the other is adding more horses to the car. To go for radical innovation, you need to find an affinity to the problem, not to the solution. Radical innovation is not about improving a process or a product by 10% or 30%. That’s not radical at all.

Radical is improving by 10x. Solving a problem radically and forever. Unless you aim to change things tenfold, then it is not worth your innovation, time or effort.

Now think what your business will look like in 2030 or 2040 when impacted by these technologies?