Someone built a better mousetrap

~ there was a time when that was what we said - the notion being that someone would invent a brilliant solution to an old problem.

What could that mean today?

Think back to innovations in our lifetime that were break-though innovations in their day, but now they are ancient history.

Regular tooth brushes were the norm, as was black and white TV with rabbit ears or a roof antenna, clunky calculators with typewriter sized footprints.

Now we’ve through solar powered pocket-sized calculat…