The history of innovation is unwieldy, diverse, wide, and deep, according to the OLC Innovate 2016 conference’s Timeline of Innovation digital installation. The introduction to this digital archive notes that the origins of the word innovation started with slave labor yet now is the go-to word for the tech world:Innovation is largely used as a positive today, either as a trait or as the result of such a trait infusing a product or process. Historically, innovation has had a much different meaning. Originally a term used specifically to describe changes in government and policy (usually in the negative), innovation becomes associated with the religious through Greek drama, a relationship strengthened through translation of the Bible. From there, things become more complicated.
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