Synthesizers: Why the Future Belongs to the Idea Connectors
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“When did we stop valuing the enormous amount of effort and time and thought that goes into culling and connecting ideas that shape humanity’s creative and intellectual direction?”
- “Learn to use the knowledge of the past and you will look like a genius, even when you are really just a clever borrower.”
- “The great driver of scientific and technological innovation (in the last 600 years has been) the increase in our ability to reach out and exchange ideas with other people, and to borrow other people’s hunches and combine them with our hunches and turn them into something new.”
- “We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.” — E. O. Wilson, biologist, theorist, naturalist and author
- “In an increasingly complex world, the fragmented state of knowledge can be seen as one of the most pressing social problems of our time.” — via Gregg Henriques
- “We’ve created a culture that fetishizes the new(s), and we forget the wealth of human knowledge, wisdom, and transcendence that lives in the annals of what we call ‘history’ – art, literature, philosophy, and so many things that are both timeless and incredibly timely.” — Maria Popova