An Upside To Hard Times: Innovation Blooms

MacGyver, you probably thought, was a television show from 30 years ago. And it was. But MacGyver is also a verb, now officially recognized as such by the Oxford English Dictionary.

The title character from the TV series was a secret agent who always managed to improvise his way out of critical situations. MacGyver’s extraordinary knack for unconventional problem solving made for good entertainment.

It also affected the colloquial American English lexicon. Today, to “MacGyver” a solution to a pr...