The Mother Of Invention

It has been said, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” I disagree. I think it's more accurate to list Invention's hypothetical parents as laziness and/or impatience. We don't call it that though—we say something “makes life easier.” So much stuff out there was invented because the old way was slower than we'd like and/or took too much work.

Think about it. There's really not a lot of things out there that were invented because there was a real and genuine need for it. Cars? Horse drawn carriages were just too slow. Light bulbs? We were too lazy to deal with proper care and safety procedures involved in using candles. Don't forget the printing press. Those scribes were just too lazy to write everything by hand, and we were too impatient to wait for them to do it. And then there's computers. Obviously another child of both laziness and impatience.

Don't get me wrong, though—I'm not knocking all the great things that have been invented. It's hard to mention life without most of them. I guess I'm just too lazy and impatient to do things “the old way.”