To the right of this post you can watch Steven Johnson’s amazing animation about innovation. In four minutes of inspirational speech and brilliant, funny drawings, he talks on the recurring patterns that occur in the run-up to the birth of great ideas. Some nuggests from the video…
- Most ideas take some time to grow, and the history of innovation shows that ideas need time to incubate.
- Great ideas often start as small hunches.
- These hunches need to collide with other hunches to form something bigger than the sum of their parts.
The great driver of technical and industrial innovation is the speed that we can exchange ideas – and combine them. So the internet is hyper-driving innovation, as we have so many ways to reach out and find people and ideas that improve our own ideas. Chance favours the connected mind.
You can also watch the video animation on YouTube.
I discovered Steven Johnson’s video via @mikechitty.
