Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
but now we tend to think more in terms of fertile circumstances, wherein uncountable numbers of minds contribute to a river of innovation.
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
McClintock, Prusiner, and Marshall offered projective thinking, suspending their disbelief regarding scientific views accepted at the time.
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
“To accomplish the extraordinary, you must seek extraordinary people.”
John Brockman • Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Civilizations, Art, Networks, Reputation, and the Online Revolution (Best of Edge Series)
people are cultural beings. They can’t help themselves.
John Brockman • Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Civilizations, Art, Networks, Reputation, and the Online Revolution (Best of Edge Series)
Here’s Kevin Kelly, futurist and Wired founder and brilliant, brilliant man, pondering the future of the book: Over the next century, scholars and fans, aided by computational algorithms, will knit together the books of the world into a single networked literature. A reader will be able to generate a social graph of an idea, or a timeline of a conc... See more
The Marginalian • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
Between randomness and routine lie the good stories, whose