Every major change in society has been led by profitable business and inventions. Steel, Cars, Trains, Airplanes, Doorknobs, Clothes Dryers, Trucks, Internet and Mobile Phones have radically activated a social change that lasts for generations. Risk-seeking entrepreneurs started their vision and changed the world.

1. Andrew Carnegie introduced steel as a lightweight competitor to iron to give birth to Pittsburgh.

2. Henry Ford introduced the horseless carriage to replace the horse and buggy to give birth to Detroit as the automotive capital of the world.

3. Cornelius Vanderbilt introduced trains to replace the stagecoach for faster travel to the birth of the West.

4. Wilbur & Orville Wright introduced airplanes to replace ships for faster global transportation and gave rise to the entire aviation industry.

5. Osburn Dorsey, an African-American, received a patent for the doorknob in 1878, providing a mechanism for opening doors.

6. George T. Sampson, an African-American, received a patent on June 7, 1892 for the clothes dryer that forever eliminated slow line-drying of clothes.

7. Fred Jones, an African American, introduced refrigerated truck trailers that transported perishable foods across the country. he giving birth to grocery stores with products from all over the world.

8. JCR Licklider created the ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet in 1963, bringing about a radical change in all facets of the world.

9. Martin Cooper made the first mobile phone call on April 3, 1973. In twenty-five years, mobile phones have radically replaced home phones.

Inventions have changed the world even when people were fighting change. Everyone wants the comfort that new inventions and ideas bring. Want to eliminate poverty and improve African American communities? Invest family time in inventing what the real social activism tool

Our world has changed dramatically in the last 200 years, and according to a report by MIT Technology Review, 45% of American occupations will be automated in the next 20 years, ushering in another sea change. Computers will begin to replace people in transportation/logistics, production labor, administrative support, services, sales, and construction.

Corporate America seeks to drive this automation with innovation, which is defined as profitable invention. Invention is an act of creating or producing through the exercise of the imagination. Dr. Stuart Brown states, “The advantage that countries like the United States … retain is the ability to invent, to come up with solutions to problems that people may not even know they have. The nations that remain economically strong are those that can create intellectual property, and the the ability to innovate comes largely from the ability to play.”

Are you ready for another transformation? Automation jobs! Could you? Don’t wait on the sidelines. Participate freely.