About - Adjacent Possible
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About - Adjacent Possible
As a condition of innovation, Johnson (2010) argues, “the adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself” (p. 31)
Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
The strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is that its boundaries grow as you explore them. Each new combination opens up the possibility of other new combinations.
Creativity and the Adjacent Possible | chris monaghan dot org
The strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is that its boundaries grow as you explore those boundaries. Each new combination ushers new combinations into the adjacent possible.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
What the adjacent possible tells us is that at any moment the world is capable of extraordinary change, but only certain changes can happen.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
The adjacent possible is about taking two seemingly unconnected ideas and metaphorically placing them next to each other to see how they might work together.
Dan Mall • “Stealing Your Way to Original Designs,” an article by Dan Mall
The adjacent possible is as much about limits as it is about openings. At every moment in the timeline of an expanding biosphere, there are doors that cannot be unlocked yet. In human culture, we like to think of breakthrough ideas as sudden accelerations on the timeline, where a genius jumps ahead fifty years and invents something that normal mind
... See moreSteven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
“the adjacent possible.” The phrase captures both the limits and the creative potential of change and innovation.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
While frontiers are about expanding the current boundaries of your life, the adjacent possible is about the untapped opportunities nearby, ready to be discovered.