Astrotheosis (@astrotheosis)
The stories our culture tells about creativity almost always concern individuals: think Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Kanye West. These stories are tempting because they are simple, because they appeal to our veneration for individualism, because we love our heroes. We have very few models for storytelling that concern small groups of people, or ent... See more
More to the point, what works of inspired genius might we be losing right now, at a moment when we’re in dire need of as much inspired genius as we can summon? As Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, puts it, ‘we are forever elsewhere.’