Innovation is ancient.

Innovation is the story of humanity itself. This story is everywhere.

Consider a story with three characters. A Mother. A Father. A Hero. Each represent a different feature of the human experience and each exhibit both beneficial and harmful characteristics.

The strong association between birth and the creative powers of those natural processes observed by humanity will use a feminine character to represent the environment. The Great Mother. Mother Nature herself. This character is the source of all the natural bounty which has sustained humanity for all of our history.

The physical environment is ambivalent to the survival of humans and has inflicted all manner of flood, fire, plague, pestilence and famine upon us throughout the ages. The environment is not only a source of riches but also the terror in the dark and the unpleasant end at the hands of a terrible beast or threatening stranger. The malevolent aspect of nature is represented by a predator, the Dragon of Chaos against which humanity has battled throughout the ages. Dragons are often found resting upon a huge pile of gold. This repose reflects the contradictory aspects of the predatory environment by simultaneously offering both alluring bounty and utter peril.