[cenhyperion]

You're confusing invention and innovation.

Invention is the creation of a new product or category. Innovation is improving upon that and making it better and more accessible. Internet forums or instant messaging were inventions. Reddit and whatsapp were innovations.

The technology may have been there 10 years ago, but it was nowhere near as robust, user friendly, scalable, well designed, or good. Thus, the majority of Americans didn't use the technology. Sam isn't arguing that those are new inventions, he's arguing that they're innovations that have spread the technology to the average consumer.

> but with the exception of the Tesla, everything he talks about existed ten years ago in some form

Electric cars have existed since the late 1800s. Everything is innovation.