Ideas are what spur innovation. What spurs ideas? Questions. The most common question we ask is “Why?”.
Sadly, we ask this because we are lazy. We want answers, not riddles, research and tedium. We want results. We wanted them yesterday.
But I ask this…How did Spoon Boy discover there was no spoon? I am sure he didn’t find the answer right away. It didn’t come from magic or another sentient program. It was logic and deductive reasoning based on experience and experimentation. But what holds back mankind?
Risk.
We are a risk adverse culture. So the first post in the finding ideas column is about how to change our risk adverse species into something more… alive. Is it all just marketing or are we waiting for the next great idea? Ideas are like matches. They burn to smoke and ash unless they are used to set fire to something or someone.
What would YOU do?
19 June 2017
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