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Category: Innovation

The Possible’s Slow Fuse Lit by Imagination

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942 Do you consider yourself an innovator? One component is creativity, thinking up novel and unique ideas. We are far from unraveling the complexity of imagination, …

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Do I really want an innovative kid?

Innovation can be scary.  Juan Enriquez in his February 2009 TED Talk describes the three contemporary fields of innovation:  microbes, tissues and robots.  In the area of microbes, we now have programmable cells where we can insert DNA “snipets” and have it boot up as a different species (check out the 2010 International Genetically Engineered Machine …

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