Hugh points to a great Fast Company article on Creativity.
I strongly believe that all people (except Traffic Wardens) can be creative.
Creativity and ideas are the easy bit, it's putting them into action which is the challenge for individuals and organisations.
Necessity is the Mother of Invention. This goes against what the article is suggesting.
I wonder if WWII or Kennedy declaring "We're going to the moon" caused
necessity which led to wondrous fast invention, or that resource was
put in place to aid the ideas which were coming forward.
I often think that the creativity and ideas aren't the issue, but finding enough resource and people to put the idea into practise. Unless of course the idea is so simple that it doesn't need much resource!
It's interesting to follow the path of Dave Winer with RSS and PodCasting.
And to read this interview with Bram Cohen, who created The Bit Torrent Effect.
Simple creative ideas, with a lot of persistence and sweat, that have changed the world.
Analysts at CacheLogic, an Internet-traffic analysis firm in Cambridge, England, report that BitTorrent traffic accounts for more than one-third of all data sent across the Internet.!!
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