Creating a Culture of Ideas. Innovation is inefficient.
More often than not, it is undisciplined, contrarian, and iconoclastic; and it nourishes itself with confusion and contradiction. In short, being innovative flies in the face of what almost all parents want for their children, most CEOs want for their companies, and heads of states want for their countries. And innovative people are a pain in the ass. Yet without innovation we are doomed-by boredom and monotony-to decline. So what makes innovation happen, and just where do new ideas come from?
One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. A very heterogeneous culture, by contrast, breeds innovation by virtue of its people, who look at everything from different viewpoints. I see two reasons for this. iPad for Teaching & Learning. Intellectual Value. Intellectual Value A radical new way of looking at compensation for owners and creators in the Net-based economy.
By Esther Dyson What happens to intellectual property when it gets on the Internet? The Net dramatically changes the economics of content. Because it allows us to copy content essentially for free, the Net poses interesting challenges for owners, creators, sellers, and users of intellectual property. In the new communities of the Net, the intrinsic value of content generally will remain high, but most individual items will have a short commercial half-life. What will almost-free software and proliferating content do to commercial markets for content? In a new environment, such as the gravity field of the moon, laws of physics play out differently.
Chief among the new rules is that "content is free. " What should content makers do in such an inverted world? Of course, there still will be ways for content creators to be paid. The half-life of value Seen one, seen them all. Spatial Agency: About.
A Daily Dose of Architecture. Most Innovative Companies. Green Markets Must Be Created By You - Low2No. We need more than sustainable versions of everyday products.
We need new products and services based on behaviour change. Most companies are dismally bad at creating successful sustainable consumption. Today's eco-attempts remain above all clumsy and expensive eco-versions of mainstream products. However real success lies in changing consumer behavior and creating new markets by designing unique products and services. Just like McDonald's did with restaurants, Apple did with mobile computing, Yellow Tail with wine and Airbnb with hotels. Think about the difference between two accommodation options for travelers. The other is a service—like airbnb.com—that lets people choose from temporarily vacant beds in the destination. Now let's think about the ecological and business impact of these two options. The business impact of airbnb.com is also significant. The Paradox of Green Consumption A good example of this is LED lighting.
Fig. 1 The Peloton Strategy (source: Demos Helsinki 2011) How complexity leads to simplicity: Eric Berlow on TED. Design 5 unconventional maps to get lost in From the earliest days of human exploration we’ve made progressively more accurate and sophisticated maps.
Maps help us find our way around the world we live in. Maps help us get to our destination. Maps keep us from becoming lost. Global Issues How data constellations tell a story: MAPPing the TED Fellows network and the conflict in Syria What’s this galaxy-like cluster of dots and lines?