NOTE: The colors are provided as a possible linear progression (red/easiest to violet/most challenging) for people that might prefer a more linear structure. Our core philosophy is that through creativity every color can be made easy or challenging for any learning level.

 INNOVATION

• Awareness – Introduction to the ability to simultaneously perceive/process/be conscious of multiple things at once

• Focus – Introduction to the ability to put your attention on one thing
  • Ex: Focusing on a conversation while being aware of the social environment

• Imagination: Introduction to the ability to form sensory experiences in your mind about things that may not currently be in your environment

• Strategy: Introduction to identification, selection, & application of strategies

 TECHNOLOGY

• Introduction to technology and machines used in daily living

• Basic apps for beginning learners

• Simple machines, magnets, gears, etc. – things that do not require electricity

• Introduction to tools

NOTE: The colors are provided as a possible linear progression (red/easiest to violet/most challenging) for people that might prefer a more linear structure. Our core philosophy is that through creativity every color can be made easy or challenging for any learning level.

INNOVATION

• Intrinsic Awareness – Exploring awareness of thoughts and feelings

• Extrinsic Awareness – Exploring environmental, situational, systemic & social awareness

• Intrinsic Focus – Exploring conscious facilitation of – thoughts, and thoughts about our thoughts, feelings, etc.

• Extrinsic Focus – Exploring presence & specific attention on activities/details/creations/work/recreation, etc. – the extreme of this being so intensely involved in one thing that you ‘lose yourself in it’

• Creativity – Exploring the process of altering or combining known and/or previously unknown components/resources to come up with ideas or items that are new and different from what one previously had and maybe even from what one was previously aware of

• Visualization – Exploring the ability to clearly see a picture in one’s own mind, and also exploring envisioning potential future outcomes

• Cognitive Strategies – Exploring how to evaluate and select general strategies for improving one’s ability to learn and apply information

• Emotional Strategies – Exploring how to evaluate and select strategies to enhance one’s emotional well being and success

TECHNOLOGY

• Introduction to functions of computers, smartphones, related devices

• Introduction to digital art/creating

• Introduction to how simple things work (toilets, doorknobs, staplers, etc.)

• Simple machines in daily living

• Putting things together and taking things apart

• Building kit and tool application

• Introduction to layout, design, blueprints, plans, etc.

• Games that teach the basics of coding

NOTE: The colors are provided as a possible linear progression (red/easiest to violet/most challenging) for people that might prefer a more linear structure. Our core philosophy is that through creativity every color can be made easy or challenging for any learning level.

INNOVATION

• Hyper Awareness/Mindfulness Overview

• Introduction to identity, values, and belief constructs

• Introduction to body awareness and movement, and environmental and body impacts on awareness, focus, and learning

• Introductory project/idea engineering and reverse engineering

• Introductory Visioneering

• Introduction to ‘systems’ strategies and goal setting strategies

• Learning strategies Overview

• Test taking strategies Overview

• Memory strategies Overview

• Reading strategies Overview

• Introduction to psychology, strategies of achievement, and NLP

TECHNOLOGY

• Intermediate skills for different types of applied technologies (difference between tablet vs smartphone vs mp3 player vs laptop vs desktop computers, etc.)

• Introduction to typing

• How household machines work (stoves, washer, dryer, fridge, etc.)

• Intro to electronics

• Introduction to coding (writing code and programming)

• Introduction to basic power tools (glue gun, power screwdriver, sander, etc.)

• Advanced applications and using apps to enhance your life

• How to use the internet as a resource

• Introduction to online collaboration and etiquette

• Introduction to social media

NOTE: The colors are provided as a possible linear progression (red/easiest to violet/most challenging) for people that might prefer a more linear structure. Our core philosophy is that through creativity every color can be made easy or challenging for any learning level.

INNOVATION

• Values/needs hierarchies – Abraham Maslow’s and Clare Graves’s systems, etc.

• Brain’ & memory building exercises

• Meditation, breathing, relaxation, and centering techniques

• Oral presentation skills – including teaching, speaking, and platform presentation

• Written presentation skills – including reports

• Graphic presentation skills – including graphing, drawing, charting, and multimedia

• Neuro-physiological stimulation/relaxation techniques and their effects

• Self motivation, productivity, and efficiency strategies

• Artistic and creative planning – mind mapping, drafting, vision boarding, etc.
• New Product Innovation Strategy: Choose an industry and study its top 10-20+ game-changing innovations and use the application of those innovations within an unrelated industry to stimulate completely new ideas, innovations and investions

• Artistic and creative flow – brainstorming, sketch-booking, creative visualization, stream of consciousness writing, improvisation, etc.

• Photo reading, speed reading, and reading comprehension strategies

• Systems theory and design

• Leadership, interpersonal and management techniques

• Organizing skills, time management, and environmental optimization- creating an ideal environment for work and productivity

TECHNOLOGY

• Introduction to wood shop

• Introduction to metal shop

• Introduction to graphics shop – graphic design, photo editing, screen printing, photography, etc.

• Introduction to office programs – document formatting, spreadsheets, PowerPoint/keynote, etc.

• How more complex machines work (engines, cars, manufacturing & industrial machines, etc.)

• Intermediate to advanced coding and programming

• Advanced skills and knowledge for different types of applied technologies (3d printers, tablets, smartphones, computers, etc.)

• Electronics including repairing/building computers and other electronic devices, soldering, circuit board construction, etc.

• Advanced tools (welding, electric saws, etc.)

• Advanced applications and creating apps

• Website design

• 3d, drafting, architectural design programs – Sketchup, 3ds Max, Autocad, sculpting programs, etc.

• Video & audio creation and design – podcasting, video creation, audio editing, etc.

• Using social media for marketing, branding and sharing things you care about

NOTE: The colors are provided as a possible linear progression (red/easiest to violet/most challenging) for people that might prefer a more linear structure. Our core philosophy is that through creativity every color can be made easy or challenging for any learning level.

INNOVATION

• Learning systems
  • Montessori
  • Waldorf
  • Orff
  • Reggio
  • Multi-Intelligence
  • Bloom’s Taxonomy
  • Study Tech
  • etc.

• Psychology and NLP systems

• Written and verbal communication systems

• Systems for brain building
  • Written textbooks/memory cards, etc.
  • Audio systems
  • Classrooms
  • Multimedia

• Health systems
  • Exercise systems
  • Medical systems
  • Insurance systems
  • Nutrition systems
  • Meditation systems, etc.

• Personal organization systems
  • Physical examples versus psychological examples – time management/productivity, etc.

• Organizational/company systems and how they operate
  • grocery store versus clothing store versus restaurant, etc.

• Art, music, and creativity systems
  • musical notation, etc.

• Philosophical, religious, and cultural systems of the world

• Scientific inquiry/exploration and discovery systems

• Governance systems

• Expansion and contraction systems
  • cultural versus economic versus specific businesses/organizations

• Personal development/growth systems

• Marketing & branding systems

• Business strategy systems

• Social/recreational/entertainment/interpersonal systems
  • Analyzing, comparing, and contrasting social media versus speed dating versus recreation versus other physical gathering “systems”

TECHNOLOGY

• Multimedia Systems
  • Systems that affect more than one human sensory experience- how they are developed, and how they evolved over time

• Distribution systems

• Transportation systems

• Manufacturing Systems
  • Robotics, automation, and also human resources systems

• Housing systems
  • Construction/home & city building systems

• Waste Management and recycling systems

• Water management systems

• Energy production, storage, and distribution systems

• Data and information management and sharing systems

• Social interaction systems
  • Including in person, electronic, and social media

• Digital communication, software, and coding systems

• Environmental systems and our interaction, management and adaptation/integration with and of them
  • Including biomimicry and permaculture

• Computer hardware systems

• Computer software systems
  • Production, recreation, productivity/efficiency innovations, etc.

• Construction, demolition and assembly/disassembly systems

• Systems for evolving technology, machines, and A.I.

NOTE: The colors are provided as a possible linear progression (red/easiest to violet/most challenging) for people that might prefer a more linear structure. Our core philosophy is that through creativity every color can be made easy or challenging for any learning level.

INNOVATION

• Founders of NLP
  • Richard Bandler is an author and trainer in the field of self-help who is best known as the co-creator (with John Grinder) of Neuro-linguistic programming.
  • John Thomas Grinder Jr is an American linguist, author, management consultant, trainer , speaker & co-creator of NLP.
  • Robert Dilts is a consultant in the field of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and has been since its creation.
  • Christina Hall is a dynamic NLP teacher for over 30 years, who uses a holistic approach in her work.
  • Michael Hall discovered the Meta-States Model (1994) which led to co-founding Neuro-Semantics (1996) as a community taking NLP to a higher professional level.
  • Julie Silverthorn, a former family therapist, helped create many NLP patterns and resources also co-wrote Training Trances and Dreaming Realities.

• Motivational/Inspirational Speakers
  •  Anthony “Tony” Robbins is an American life coach & self-help author who’s books and seminars have been read or watched by millions of people in over 100 countries.
  • Bob Proctor is one of the most sought-after speakers in the world for professional coaching and corporate seminars.
  • Les Brown is a motivational speaker/host of the Les Brown Show, former politician, author and DJ.
  • Christopher Howard is a lifestyle/wealth strategist, author, prominent speaker and CEO of the Academy of Wealth and Achievement.
  • Jim Rohn was an entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker.

• Legacy Creators that Empower millions of people to change their lives
  • Oprah Winfrey is a philanthropist, talk show host, actress, producer; was dubbed “Queen of All Media, & has been called the most influential woman in the world.
  • Deepak Chopra is an Indian-American author/public speaker and alternative medicine advocate.
  • Wayne Dyer is a self-help author and motivational speaker.
  • Neale Walsch is the author of the series, Conversations with God, an actor/screenwriter and speaker.
  • Louise Hay is a motivational speaker and founder of Hay house.
  • Dale Carnegie was a writer and developer of self improvement courses.

• Entrepreneurial Masters
  • Walt Disney was an cartoonist/filmmaker and business magnate.
  • Henry Ford founder of the Ford Motor Company, sponsored the development of the mass assembly line.
  • Samuel Walton was a businessman for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam’s Club.
  • Koch family of industrialists and business people notable of Koch Industries, the second largest privately owned company in the United States.
  • Martha Stewart is businesswoman, writer/television personality, who founded Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and gained success through a variety of ventures.
  • Jim Henson was a American puppeteer, artist, cartoonist ,inventor, who produced The Muppet Show and won fame for his creations.
  • Ted Turner, a media mogul and philanthropist who is known as founder of the Cable News Network more popularly known as CNN.

• Philanthropists
  • Bill Gates founded Microsoft , the Gates Foundation and donated billions to Healthcare, education, AIDS-prevention, sanitation.
  • Al Gore a former Vice President of the United States is a humanitarian in the field of the environment.
  • Wayne Newton makes his humanitarian mark when performing for the troops and one of the best-known entertainers in Las Vegas.
  • Warren Buffett donated $30.7 billion to healthcare, extreme poverty, education, and access to information technology.
  • Li Ka-shing donated $10 billion to education, health care.
  • Chuck Feeney donated $6.2 billion to healthcare, youth, aging, poverty, human rights.
  • George Soros donated $6 billion to health care, anti-Fascism, human rights, economic, legal, social reform.
  • Azim Premji donated $2 billion to education, and health care.
  • Howard Hughes– donated $1.56 billion to health care.

• Humanitarians
  • Mohandas Gandhi was the leader of the Indian independence movement.
  • Mother Teresa was the founder of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation.
  • Martin L. King, Jr. was a civil rights activist who used nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.
  • Florence Nightingale was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.
  • Henry Dunant was a Swiss businessman social activist and co-creator of the Red Cross.
  • George Washington Carver was an American botanist and inventor.

• Educators
  • Maria Montessori was an Italian physician/educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name.
  • Rudolf Steiner founded the Waldorf school and a spiritual movement called anthroposophy.
  • Anne Sullivan was a blind educator, well known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller.
  • William McGuffey wrote the McGuffey Readers, which was the first widely used series of textbooks.
  • Emma Willard was an American women’s rights activist dedicated to education who founded, the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York.
  • Jaime Escalante was a Bolivian educator known for teaching troubled math students at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles, and was the subject of the film, Stand and Deliver.

• Philosophers
  • Confucius was a teacher, editor, and philosopher.
  • Socrates was philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy.
  • Plato was a philosopher and an influential figure in philosophy, central in Western philosophy.
  • Alan Watts is known as an interpreter but also made Eastern philosophy popular for a Western audience.
  • Will Durant was a historian/writer known for The Story of Civilization. 

• Psychologists
  • Carl Rogers was considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research.
  • John Watson established the psychological school of behaviorism.
  • Sigmund Freud an Austrian neurologist, now known as the father of psychoanalysis.
  • Carl Jung was the founder of analytical psychology and the concepts of collective unconsciousness.
  • Milton Erickson was the founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis.
  • Abraham Maslow was best known for creating Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
  • William James was a philosopher, physician and psychologist, who has been labeled the Father of American psychology.

• Sociology
  • Karl Marx was the writer of The Communist Manifesto and one of the founders of sociology and social science.
  • Auguste Comte was a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism.
  • William Sumner held the nation’s first professorship in sociology.
  • Karl Mannheim was a founding father of classical sociology and a founder of the sociology of knowledge.
  • William Du Bois wrote the first scientific treatise in the field of sociology and was the first African American to earn a doctorate.

• Global Transformation Visionaries
  • Richard Fuller was an inventor who was the second president of Mensa.
  • Jacque Frescois a futurist and self-described social engineer who directs The Venus Project.
  • Barbara M. Hubbard is credited with the concepts of ‘The Synergy Engine’ and the ‘Birthing’ of humanity.
  • Jack Reed is a man who genuinely cares about the planet and is the author of The Next Evolution.
  • Peter Joseph is a filmmaker, activist, creator of the Zeitgeist series of videos and the Zeitgeist movement.

• Governance
  • George Washington was the first president of the Unites States and helped draft the Constitution.
  • Hillary Clinton, former US Secretary of State, Senator, and the only First lady to hold a national office.
  • Thomas Jefferson was a founding father and 3rd president of the United States.
  • Abraham Lincoln was the sixth president and abolished slavery to preserve the country.
  • Margaret Thatcher served as British Prime Minister for the longest time and has been the only female to ever serve in that position.
  • Shirley Temple Black was a famous child star who became politically active in her later years, as US Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, after Kissinger heard of her interest at a party.

• Scientific Advancers
  • Galileo Galilei is called the father of modern science.
  • Albert Einstein developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.
  • Charles Darwin was best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory.
  • Stephen Hawking is an English theoretical physicist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.
  • Johannes Kepler was a key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution and is known for his laws of planetary motion.
  • Nicolaus Copernicus formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at its center.
  • Sir Isaac Newton is recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution.
  • Francis Bacon called the father of empiricism and popularised inductive methodologies called the scientific method.

• Health & Fitness
  • Hippocrates was a Greek physician and the father of western medicine.
  • Francois”Jack” LaLanne was a fitness/nutritional expert and motivational speaker; sometimes called “the godfather of fitness”.
  • Richard Simmons is an American fitness personality and actor.
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger is an actor, filmmaker, activist, investor, philanthropist, former professional bodybuilder, and politician.
  • Josef Weider was a Canadian bodybuilder and entrepreneur who co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilders.
  • Dr. Douglas Graham, a lifetime athlete and raw fooder since 1978, is an advisor to world-class athletes and trainers.

• Entertainment
  • Michael Jackson was an American singer/songwriter/dancer, known as the King of Pop.
  • Paul Newman was an American actor, director, entrepreneur, auto racing team owner/enthusiast.
  • John Lennon was a singer-songwriter who founded the Beatles with Paul McCartney, which is the most celebrated of the 20th century. 
  • Elvis Presley was a singer/actor considered one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century.
  • James “Jimi” Hendrix is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music.
  • Steve Perry (former) lead vocalist of rock band Journey, has been described as “The Golden Voice”.
  • Eric Clapton, is an English musician, singer-songwriter/guitarist is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

• Artistic Innovators
  • Claude Monet was the initiator of ” the term “Impressionism”.
  • Auguste Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture.
  • Donatello incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspectival illusionism in sculpture.
  • Pablo Picasso one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, co-founded the Cubist movement, and invented constructed sculpture.
  • Michelangelo engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. 

• Literary Innovators
  • Walt Whitman is often called the father of free verse, he transitioned between transcendentalism and realism.
  • Jack Kerouac is considered a literary iconoclast and a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
  • William S. Burroughs was considered to be “one of the most politically trenchant, and innovative artists of the 20th century.
  • William Shakespeare writings shaped numerous literary works and is considered the greatest writer in the English language.
  • Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the Father of English literature and considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.
  • Sir Walter Raleigh was a writer/poet, soldier/politician, courtier, spy, explorer and known for making tobacco popular in England.
  • Jane Austen whose works of romantic fiction, place her as one of the most widely read writers in English literature.
  • Durante Alighieri aka Dante was an Italian poet of the Middle Ages whose Divine Comedy, is considered the greatest literary work composed in Italian.

• Spiritual Leaders
  • Dalai Lama is the head monk of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.
  • Michael Beckwith is the founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center a New Thought church with over 8,000 members.
  • Joel Olsteen is the Senior Pastor of Lakewood Church, the largest Protestant church in the United States.
  • Brigham Young founded Salt Lake City, a settler of the Western United States and was a President of (LDS Church).
  • Gautama Buddha was the sage whose teachings create the Buddhism traditions.

TECHNOLOGY

• Transportation
  • Dean Kamen invented the pioneering transportation vehicle the Segway.
  • Robert Fulton was an engineer and inventor credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat.
  • Henry Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
  • Aristotle Onassis amassed the world’s largest privately owned shipping fleet.
  • Wright Brothers were inventors, and aviation pioneers who are credited with the invention of the first successful working airplane.

• Energy
  • Nikola Tesla pioneered the generation, transmission, and use of alternating current.
  • Anders Celsius was a professor of astronomy, known for his temperature scale, he based on the boiling/melting points of water.
  • Michael Farraday discovered electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and electrolysis.
  • Thomas Edison is famous for inventing the light bulb.
  • George Ohm found a direct proportionality voltage and current known as Ohm’s law.
  • Alessandro Volta developed the first electrical battery, known as the Voltaic Cell.

• Housing
  • Michael Reynolds invented the earthship sustainable housing model.
  • Nader Khalili popularized earthbag construction.
  • Frank Lloyd Wright Â designed structures that were in harmony with humanity and the environment.
  • LeCorbusier, a French designer, is considered one of the pioneers of modern architecture.
  • Rick Fedrizzi is one of the co-founders of the U. S. Green Building Council, which promotes sustainability in buildings.
  • David Weekley‘s home building company by the same name is the largest in the USA and has divisions in the south/southwest.

• Food
  • Bill Mollison is the father of permaculture.
  • Masanobu Fukuoka was a Japanese farmer/philosopher celebrated for natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands.
  • Cyrus McCormick was an Inventor and is credited as the “inventor” of the mechanical reaper.
  •  Louis Pasteur applied his theories to foods/ drinks and invented a heating process now called pasteurization.
  • Otto Rohwedder created the first automatic bread-slicing machine for commercial use.
  • Carl Von Linde who discovered a refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial-scale air separation and gas liquefaction processes.
  • Coenraad Van Houten was a chemist/chocolate manufacturer who invented the process that creates cocoa powder.
  • John Montagu is best known for the claim that he was the eponymous inventor of the sandwich.

• Water
  • Heron was a Greek inventor that used pressurized piping for fire fighting purposes in the City of Alexandria.
  • Hippocrates discovered the healing powers of water, invented the practice of sieving water, and obtained the first bag filter to trap sediments that caused bad tastes or odors.
  • Joseph Priestley experimented with putting gases in liquids in 1767, producing the first artificially-produced carbonated water.
  • Norbert Rillieux most noted for his invention of the multiple-effect evaporator, an energy-efficient means of evaporating water.
  • Gaius Maecenas of Rome built the first heated swimming pool in the first century BC.
  • Edmund Rudd took inspiration from the Waddy Maughan water heater and took forward his design by including additional safety features.

• Waste Management
  • Thomas Crapper increased the popularity of the flush toilet, and developed important related inventions, such as the ballcock.
  • Alexander Cummings‘ received a 1775 patent for the S-trap, which laid the foundations for the modern flush toilet.
  • Harry Wasylyk was a Canadian inventor who with Larry Hansen of Ontario, invented the disposable garbage bag in 1950.
  • Sir John Harington was a master of art, courtier, author and popularly known as the inventor of the flush toilet.
  • Edwin Chadwick was an English social reformer known for his work to reform the Poor Laws and improve sanitary conditions and public health.

• Reuse/Recycling
  • Recycling has been a common practice for most of human history, with recorded advocates as far back as Plato in 400 BC.
  • Bill Coors created a recyclable aluminum can which planted a seed of environmentalism in the American mindset.
  • Waste-to-energy is the process of generating energy in the form of electricity and/or heat and is a form of energy recovery.
  • Compost is a key ingredient in organic farming, the process of composting requires making a heap of wetted organic as green waste.
  • Reduce Reuse Recycle using information from the US Government EPA website.
  • Recycling Landfills

• Tools
  • Archimedes of Syracuse invented the first compound pulleys 287 BC – 212 BC.
  • J.J. Richardson invented the ratcheting socket wrench with interchangeable sockets.
  • Henry F. Phillips’ contribution was his concept of the crosshead that was adopted by screwmakers, for the screwdriver named after him and the screws.
  • Charles Moncky invented the monkey wrench in Baltimore in 1858.
  • Bernhard Heine created a chain saw like tool for cutting bones called an Osteotome.

• Inventors
  • Leonardo Da Vinci is best known for his paintings (the Last Supper, and the Mona Lisa).
  • Thomas Edison is best known for inventing the first long-lasting, commercially practical incandescent light bulb.
  • Nikola Tesla helped develop the AC electrical delivery system and worked on the production/transmission of power.
  • The Wright brothers invented and flew the world’s first successful airplane.
  • Guglielmo Marconi is often credited as the inventor of radio.
  • Elijah J McCoy was a Canadian of African descent who invented the oil-drip cup and “the real McCoy” was associated with him.
  • Sandford Fleming helped build the transcontinental railways of the 19th century and invented the worldwide standard time.
  • Ben Franklin is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, Franklin stove, among other inventions.
  • Alexander Bell was awarded the US patent for the telephone in 1876, and is reputed to be a great figure of the nineteenth century.

• Recreation/Toys
  • Karl Drais invented the Laufmaschine (“running machine”), also later called the velocipede also nicknamed the dandy horse.
  • Leonard Stern was a film/television producer, director, and a creator with Roger Price, of the classic word game Mad Libs.
  • Erno Rubik was a Hungarian architect and professor of architecture who invented mechanical puzzles including Rubik’s Cube.
  • John Lloyd Wright, son of Frank was an American architect and toy inventor of Linkin Logs.
  • Ole Christiansen was the 10th son of an impoverished family who founded the Danish construction toy company the Lego Group.
  • Markus Persson is Swedish video game programmer and designer known as the founder of Mojang and Minecraft.

• Computers (hardware)
  • Steve Jobs founded Apple and played a central role in the personal computer revolution.
  • Konrad Zuse‘s greatest achievement was the world’s first programmable computer.
  • Dale Heatherton gets the credit for the first smartmodem, released in 1981.
  • Alan Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.
  • Dennis C. Hayes (born 1950) was the founder of Hayes Microcomputer Products, a maker of modems.
  • Michael Dell is the Founder and CEO of Dell Computers.
  • Jony Ive is responsible for many of Apple’s most innovative products including the iPhone, the iPad and the Macbook.
  • Jeffrey Grossman is an Assoc. Professor of Power Engineering at MIT and he pioneered research on photovoltaics/nanotechnology.

• Communication/Internet
  • Sir Timothy Berners-Lee created the 1st successful communication between a HTTP client and server by way of the Internet.
  • Richard H. Frenkiel is an American engineer, known for development of cellular telephone networks.
  • Richard Branson is the founder of Virgin Group which among other topics includes media and telecommunications.
  • Joel Engel is known for fundamental contributions to the development of the cellular network.
  • Robert Pera is the founder of Ubiquiti Networks, a pioneering wireless technology company serving the world’s emerging markets.
  • Vinton”Vint” Cerf is recognized as one of “the fathers of the Internet“, with American engineer Bob Kahn.
  • Robert Melancton co-invented Ethernet, founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe’s Law.
  • Niklas Zennström a Swedish entreprenuer, created Skype, an Internet telephony service based on P2P technology.

• Coding and Software
  • Bjarne Stroustrupis a Danish computer scientist, notable for the creation and development of the C++ programming language.
  • Jeff Bezos is the Founder and CEO of Amazon.com and one of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time.
  • Blake Ross is known for co-creating Mozilla Firefox and he worked at Facebook as head of product.
  • Larry Ellison is the Co-founder and CEO of Oracle and has been a long-time pioneer and innovator in the software industry.
  • Elon Musk is the co-founder of Paypal and founded the electric car company Tesla plus the space technology company SpaceX.
  • Ray Kurzweil is the Director of Engineering at Google working in the field of artificial intelligence.
  • Sergey Brin is co-founder of Google and involved with innovative technologies like Google Glass and Google’s self-driving cars.
  • Larry Page is the Co-founder and current CEO of Google.
  • Marissa Mayer is the current CEO of Yahoo, the first female engineer at Google.
  • Steve Wilhite of CompuServe was on the engineering lead on the team that adapted the GIF file format.

• Social Media
  • Mark Zuckerberg is the billionaire co-founder and CEO of Facebook created while he was studying at Harvard.
  • Dustin Moskovitz is the co-founder of Facebook who left Facebook to co-found Asana, the web-based productivity software.
  • Reid Hoffman is founder of LinkedIn and is a Silicon Valley veteran who was also COO of Paypal.
  • Chad Hurley is co-founder with Steve Chen, and former CEO of the popular video sharing website YouTube and MixBit.
  • Chris DeWolfe is an entrepreneur, and one of the creators of Myspace along with Tom Anderson.
  • Jack Dorsey is a web developer and businessman widely known as a co-founder of Twitter.

• Industrialization (Automation)
  • Steam Engine was patented by Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont  in 1606.
  • Carnegie Steel was created and expanded by Andrew Carnegie, an industrialist and philanthropist.
  • Windwheel was the earliest instance of wind harnessing, created by Hero of Alexandria.
  • The Conveyor Belt resulted from a series of experiments from Thomas Robins in 1892.
  • The first Moving sidewalk was built by Goodyear and installed in 1954.

• Robotics
  • Archytas was reputed to have designed and built the first artificial, self-propelled flying device.
  • Isaac Asimov formulated the Three Laws of Robotics, and in the process of doing so, coined the word “robotics”.
  • Tanaka Hisashige was an Japanese engineer who founded what became Toshiba and at 20 made, karakuri, autonomous dolls powered by hydraulics.
  • James Spangler was a janitor, salesman, and inventor who created the commercially successful upright vacuum in 1908.
  • Joseph Engelberger, a physicist and entrepreneur, created the first industrial robot, Unimate.

• Artificial Intelligence
  • John McCarthy was an American computer/cognitive scientist who founded the discipline of artificial intelligence with Marvin Minsky.
  • Marvin Minsky is an American cognitive scientist is the co-founder of the artificial intelligence (AI) lab at MIT and author of several texts on AI.
  • Allen Newell contributed to the Information Processing Language the earliest AI programs, the Logic Theory Machine and the General Problem Solver with Herbert A. Simon.
  • Herbert Simon was among the founding fathers of several of today’s important scientific domains, including artificial intelligence.
  • Pamela McCorduck is an American author of a number of books about the history and significance of artificial intelligence.

• Personal/home technologies
  • Sir James Dyson is British industrial designer, known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner.
  • Henry Dreyfuss was an American industrial designer who designed for companies including Bell, Hoover, John Deere, Honeywell and more.
  • James Spangler was a janitor, salesman, inventor who created the commercially successful upright vacuum in 1908.
  • James Harrison, an Australian journalist and politician, is the reported inventor of mechanical refrigeration.
  • Stephen Poplawski created the liquefier blender in 1922, he used it to create drinks in his soda shop.

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INNOVATION

• NLP Trainings
  • NLP University
  • Society of NLP
  • International NLP Association
  • American Union of NLP
  • The Association for NLP

• Motivational and inspirational products, services, and brands that empower millions of people to change their lives
  • Think and Grow Rich/Law of Success/Born Rich
  • Oprah-Harpo Productions (tv show, magazine, network)
  • Hay House/Chicken Soup for the Soul
  • Humanity’s Team
  • Books- New Earth

•  Business and business mindset developing brands, products, and services
  • SainStore
  • Centric Digital
  • Total Technology Solutions
  • Best Industries
  • Olation Business Software

• Multinational retail corporations that operate chains of large discount/warehouse stores
  • Walmart
  • Kmart
  • Target
  • TJ Maxx
  • Big Lots
  • Family Dollar Store
  • Costco
  • BJ’s Wholesale Club
  • Burlington Coat Factory
  • SteinMart
  • Tuesday Morning
  • Marshalls
  • Sams Wholesale Club
  • Meijer
  • Homegoods

• Philanthropic Organizations- organizations that give funds to nonprofits and charities or design products for the benefit of humanity
  • Gates Foundation – Assists with various health and global financial needs by providing grants and other resources.
  • The Virgin Group owned by Richard Branson, has travel, entertainment and lifestyle enterprises plus much more.
  • Patagonia assists grassroots groups.
  • South African Power created the Bataki Water Wheel which is a low tech electricity solution.
  • Vanguard Charitable gives funds to charities in all of the U.S. and are a cause neutral organization.
  • Salvation Army International provides a wide variety of service in the addiction, health and sports arenas through the world.
  • Ronald McDonald House helps sick children and provides grants/scholarships to students throughout the world.

• Humanitarian Organizations- nonprofits and charities that are hands on
  • Red Cross
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Feeding America
  • Care
  • Doctors Without Borders

• Top world impacting educational products, brands, toys, and resources
  • National Geographic and National Geographic for Kids
  • Discovery Channel
  • The Learning Channel, etc.
  • Sesame Street
  • Barney & Friends
  • Leapfrog
  • Boy Scouts & Girl Scouts
  •  Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Wikipedia
  • One Community Toys

• Top philosophical groups, organizations, and products that impact the world
  • Institute for Philosophical Research
  • Philosophical of Science Association
  • British Philosophical Society
  • The International Association for Philosophy and Literature
  • Presidential Committee for the Study of Bioethical Issues

• Most popular/impactful resources for brain Building
  • Brain Gym
  • Clockwork Brain
  • Lumosity
  • Fit Brains
  • CogniFit

•  Top psychology groups, products and organizations that impact the world
  • American Psychological Organization
  • Association of Black Psychologists
  • Association for Psychological Science
  • Society for Personality and Social Psychology
  • Society for the Teaching of Psychology

•  Top sociological groups, products and organizations that impact the world
  • American Sociological Association
  • International Sociological Association
  • The Society for the Study of Psychological Study of Social Issues
  • Eastern Sociological Society
  • The Association for Applied Sociology

•  Top world Change Organizations
  • Tesla motor company
  • Venus Project
  • One Community
  • Buckminster Fuller Institute
  • Cornucopia Institute
  • Union of Concerned Scientist
  • Friends of the Earth

• Top resources and organizations for governance
  • EPA
  • United Nations
  • World Health Organization
  • CIA
  • KGB
  • FBI

•  Health and fitness products, services, and advancements that impacted the masses
  • Cardio exercise equip
    • Treadmill
    • Stationary Bike
    • Elliptical Trainer
  • Strength building equipment
    • Ivanko Barbell Company 
    • Irongrip Barbell Company
    • Hydraulic Exercise Equipment
    • Free Motion Fitness Equipment
  • Nutritional supplements, steroids, etc.
    • Fish Oil
    • Vitamin D
    • Whey Protein
    • Fruit and Vegetable Concentrates
    • Probiotics
  • Top Herbs for use as medicine
    • Garlic
    • Honey
    • Cinnamon
    • Tumeric
    • Ginger
  • The evolution of top sports and sporting arenas
    • Football
    • Basketball
    • Volleyball
    • Field Hockey
    • Cricket
  • Personal health applications and monitoring systems, etc.
    • AIQ Smart Clothing
    • The best smart clothing: From biometric shirts to contactless payment jackets
    • Nuubo 
    • ADT Health Monitoring
    • Guardian Medical Monitoring

•  Audio Inventions and mediums
  • Cassette Tape
  • Phonograph
  • Vinyl Records
  • MP3
  • Dolby Digital

• Art
  • Starry Night
  • Mona Lisa
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring
  • Last Supper
  • Creation of Adam

•  Entertainment
  • Star Wars
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Harry Potter
  • Avatar
  • Star Trek

• Literature
  • Hamlet, 1948
  • Huckelberry Finn
  • Odyssey
  • Iliad
  • Beowulf
  • War and Peace
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • On the road

• Spirituality/Religion
  • Christianity
  • Judaism
  • Universalism
  • New Age
  • Buddhism
  • Hinduism

•  Medical innovations in medicines and using nature for cures
  • Penicillin
  • Pasteurization
  • Syringe
  • Vaccination
  • Xray
  • Wheelchairs

•  World changing natural & life science advances and products
  • Mendelian science
  • Microscope
  • Cloning
  • Quantum Theory
  • L. E. D.

• Innovated Biomimicry products and brands that change the world
  • rDNA Technology
  • Velcro
  • Whalepower
  • Sharkskin
  • Gecko Tape

TECHNOLOGY

• Media/Marketing/Social Media
  • Youtube
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Linkedin

• The Internet

• Mass distribution of written communication- from printing press to email

• Advancements in energy/alternative energy
  • Solar Panel
  • Power Grid
  • Electrical Tower Transformer
  • Osmotic Power
  • GeoThermal

• Man-made lighting
  • Lightbulb
  • Halogen Lamp
  • Flashlight
  • Fluorescent Lamp
  • Plasma Lamp

• Computers, hardware, robots
  • Macintosh Computers
  • Personal computers
  • Laptops or Notebooks
  • PDAS – Personal Digital Assistant
  • Supercomputer
  • Android
  • IPAD

• Coding, software, and applications
  • Floppy disc
  • Itunes store
  • Google Play store
  • dbase II
  • Microsoft BASIC
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Apache

• Industrialization (Automation) & Robotics

• Artificial Intelligence
  • Big Blue ?
  • Deep Mind
  • Deep Blue
  • Deep Learning
  • Open Cog
  • Texai

• Recreation/toys, personal/home technologies
  • Washing Machine
  • Sewing Machines
  • Electric Fireplace
  • Electric Razors
  • Vtech Smartwatch
  • Digital Television (DTV)

• Product transportation and distribution machines and vehicles
  • UPS
  • USPS
  • Fedex
  • DHL
  • DPD Group
  • Parcel Force Worldwide
  • CLS International

• Materials manufacturing
  • Steel
  • Plastic
  • Textiles
  • Aluminum
  • Composite Materials 

• Travel and transportation advancing products and companies
  • Zeppelin
  • Combustion engine
  • Virgin Air travel
  • GE Transportation
  • AMCOL International
  • Better Place

• Food and natural resources- advancements, products & companies that impact the world
  • GMO with gene splicing (Monsanto)
  • Greenpeace
  • Glencore Mining
  • Pepsi Cola Company
  • Nestle
  • Mars

• Water advancing products and companies
  • Lifestraw
  • Brita
  • ECI Water
  • A2O
  • Sensus

• Housing advancing products and companies
  • Tract housing 
  • Condominiums
  • Townhouses (Terraced Home)
  • Single Family homes
  • Barracks

• Specific scientific tools, discoveries, and products that changed the world
  • How understanding gravity/round planet, etc. impacted the world
  • The development of the microscope, etc.
  • The development/evolution of the periodic table
  • The evolution of understanding quantum physics
  • The most impactful schools for sciences

• World waste management and recycling/repurposing advancing products and companies
  • Salvation Army
  • Goodwill
  • Waste Reduction Grinders
  • Waste to Fuel Conversion
  • HP Planet Partners Recycling Program
  • Eurokey Recycling Ltd.

• Tools-advancing products and companies
  • The first cordless power tool was unveiled by Black & Decker in 1961.
  • DeWalt is a global brand of power tools and a subsidiary of Stanley Black and Decker.
  • Japan based Makita has been around for one hundred years manufacturing power tools.
  • Founded in Wisconsin around 1923, Dremel is primarily known for its rotary power tools.
  • Famous for heavy duty power tools Milwaukee Tools has over 500 products available.

• World changing physical science advancements & products
  • Telescope
  • Pulley
  • Plow
  • Printing Press
  • Steam Engine
  • Refrigeration

• Other AWESOME ideas – you choose!