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Is America Really Running Out of Original Ideas?
To borrow some familiar language, it’s not just that ideas are getting harder to find. The problem is also that new ideas are getting harder to use.
Ezra Klein • Abundance
Countries that used to define themselves through creating bold new institutions no longer do so—there are no recent equivalents to the NHS or the BBC in Britain; no equivalents of NASA or DARPA in the US. In much of academic life, too, you are more likely to succeed by slightly tweaking an established idea than creating a novel one.18
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
We are experiencing an imagination crisis.
Creators are mostly focused on outcomes, usually monetary, rather than taking pride in their work and intellectual development.
Therefore it has become a race&nbs
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