Hybrids (4): Intersections and you
This is the fourth of a series on the role of hybrids in innovation. This is where I put the ideas of the previous posts to… Read More »Hybrids (4): Intersections and you
Hybrids (3): when ideas breed (Kevin Kelly on combinatorial innovation)
Kevin Kelly has a lot to say about innovation as combination. Here’s a good riff: Most new ideas and new inventions are disjointed ideas merged.… Read More »Hybrids (3): when ideas breed (Kevin Kelly on combinatorial innovation)
More from Mill
More from Mill on diversity (see Hybrids). It’s a longer quotation than usual, but it’s great. In short: diversity and mixing allow new “good things,… Read More »More from Mill
Hybrids (2): combinations and connections (Tim O’Reilly on Combinational Innovation)
New ideas and technologies are often hybrids. Sometimes we take quantum leaps and invent entirely new technologies, but more often they seem to emerge at… Read More »Hybrids (2): combinations and connections (Tim O’Reilly on Combinational Innovation)
Hybrids (1): John Stuart Mill on Diversity of Ideas
By most accounts, hybridity is a good thing. Cross breeding animals and plants can result in stronger, healthier populations. John Stuart Mill argued that diversity of… Read More »Hybrids (1): John Stuart Mill on Diversity of Ideas
Intertwingled
In the era of ecosystems, seeing the big picture is more important than ever, and less likely. It’s not simply that we’re forced into little… Read More »Intertwingled
Choose what you want
Before I can post about hybrids I need to post about selective breeding. People have been breeding plants and animals for thousands of years. Before… Read More »Choose what you want
Other people’s children
All of the greatest advances in our society have come when we’ve invested in other people’s children. Attributed to Robert Putnam That was Tim O’Reilly… Read More »Other people’s children
The valley of crappy data
Joost Wesseling from the Dutch Institute for Public Health and the Environment on the iffy quality of readings from citizen air quality measurement efforts using… Read More »The valley of crappy data
Rewriting the world
The possibilities of the future are often lying latent in the field of our vision. We can’t see them… And then suddenly we do, and… Read More »Rewriting the world