# Technology enables exploration of the unknown Sometimes, technology doesn’t relax a clear constraint - whether it’s a problem like ‘Blind people have a hard time interacting with technology designed for sighted people’ or giving a superpower like ’now you can use an airplane to fly.’ ‘People are constrained by the reality that they don’t have a platform to easily share photos with filters” feels as convoluted as “people didn’t even know they had the problem that they couldn’t share photos with filters” Instead, Instagram just asks the question “What happens if people can share photos with filters?” While [[You can identify constraints analytically]], [[Exploring the unknown has unpredictable results]] Technology enables exploration does not span innovation space but[[Technology relaxes constraints and Technology enables exploration of the unknown are basis vectors]] <!-- #evergreen --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Technology+enables+exploration+of+the+unknown) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Technology+enables+exploration+of+the+unknown)