The Trick To Having Good Ideas Is

Popular Culture, On Average, Has Been Growing More Cognitively Challenging Over The Past Thirty Years, Not Less. Despite Everything You Hear About Declining Standards And Dumbing-down, You Have To Do More Intellectual Work To Make Sense Of Today's Television Or Games - Much Less The Internet - Than You Did A Few Decades Ago.

The Adjacent Possible Is A Kind Of Shadow Future, Hovering On The Edges Of The Present State Of Things, A Map Of All The Ways In Which The Present Can Reinvent Itself.

The Problem Is, There Are Definitely Some Genuinely Lame Things On Television, And There's More At The Bottom Of The Barrel, Because The Barrel In A Sense Has Gotten Bigger.

Good Ideas May Not Want To Be Free, But They Do Want To Connect, Fuse, Recombine. They Want To Reinvent Themselves By Crossing Conceptual Borders. They Want To Complete Each Other As Much As They Want To Compete

Some Great Minds Become Great By Turning The Rubble Of An Exploded Paradigm Into Something Consistent And Meaningful. Others Become Great By Laying The Gunpowder, Grain By Grain. Every Important Revolution Needs Both Kinds Of Minds To Complete Itself.