Jeff Jarvis has been “thinking a lot about this lately: the need to risk and fail and not hold perfection as the standard of success.” That’s a ‘perfect’ jump-off to introduce an important concept I’m trying to promote: generativity: instead of evaluating things on how well they accord with preconceived models and assumptions, let’s evaluate [...]
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I feel obligated to write about this because it squats squarely in my basket of interests, touching on politics, belief, science, ethics, media… If I didn’t post something about this I’d be signaling gross indifference to the enterprise of blogging. Concern in the science community shouldn’t be surprising. By comparison, while we don’t expect the agriculture [...]
For 2009′s Edge Annual Question, John Brockman asked, “What will change everything?” The answers are diverse, but the most common type of response seems to relate to some kind of leap in intelligence — maybe a majority that range from education to artificial intelligence. As I read through it and thought about my own answer, I started to [...]
Richard Florida asks, “How do we move beyond the bailout economy to one that is creative, productive, and prosperous?” Let’s start from the end of my recent post about Keynes, an afterthought at the time: … my feeling right now is that the best solution would be a kind of “green bubble” that uses government funds to challenge researchers and entrepreneurs, [...]
