Recently I heard the following sentence which I liked very much (it is a quote attributed to Wilson Mizner by Wikipedia):
“if you copy from one person, it is plagiarism;
if you copy from two it is research”
Now that’s really a deep insight into what creativity is. It is often the unexpected meeting of two minds coming from different places. Actually, creativity requires the constructive confrontation of ideas.
The Fourth Revolution increases significantly the frequency of confrontation to other’s ideas and significantly increases the world’s creativity. And that way, our collective cognitive capability.
We still need to quote the origin of ideas, but not be frozen with respect and transform them on the spot.
People tweak and rework original ideas, and products, much more often than before.
Why don’t you give it a try and contribute yourself to the Fourth Revolution?
