Creating a Culture of Ideas. Ming the Mechanic points to Creating a Culture of Ideas: "Innovation is inefficient. More often than not, it is undisciplined, contrarian, and iconoclastic; and it nourishes itself with confusion and contradiction. [...] One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. [...] Our biggest challenge in stimulating a creative culture is finding ways to encourage multiple points of views. Many engineering deadlocks have been broken by people who are not engineers at all. This is simply because perspective is more important than IQ." [Universal Rule]

Negroponte is right on about creativity and diversity. It is one of our strengths. We need to do a better job fostering it. Or rather the companies and organizations that do a beter job will be much more successful in the changing world we find ourselves. A growing culture welcomes these things. As soon as we turn our back on these, we will become a culture in decline.  11:26:07 PM