The Adnostic

Ken Robinson is a leading thinker on education and advocate for teaching the arts in public schools. Read his bio here. See his TED talk here:

Leading a Culture of Innovation
- We are caught in today's equivalent of an industrial revolution
- We make poor use of our human resources causing interpersonal strife
-- Not using people to the best of their abilities

- There are no facts about the future, only trends

- Most people believe that there is a separation between intelligence and creativity
-- Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value
- We are educating people out of their creativity

- Singularity - the blending of human consciousness with machines
-- One-day computers will have the processing speed of the human brain and when that happens, computers will begin to learn and write their own operating system
- Technology and demographic revolutions
-- Fragmentation of industries, intense competition, multi-culturalization

- We need a strategic imperative for new ideas. We must challenge what we take for granted.

- Read "Culture and the Senses"
- Common sense is the biggest barrier to creativity
-- Once we find something obvious we cease to understand it

- Culture of Innovation - personal, corporate requirements:
-- Intelligence - diverse, dynamic, distinct
-- Horizontal integration, cross function, no silos
-- Top investing to the bottom
-- Stimulating habitat
-- Creating optimal conditions for creativity - time to think

- Advertisers shape opinion (true? or more credit than we deserve?)