“Innovation is creativity with a job to do.”
John Emmerling
Innovation Consultant
Author
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9 years ago
“Thinking is good. Understanding is better. Creating is best.“
Professor Thomas A. Bass
University at Albany
Author, The Spy Who Loved Us
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9 years ago
“The substrate of future thoughts will sit somewhere on a continuum within a rainbow of intelligences, from regular-I to AI.”
Roger Highfield
Science Writer
Museum Director
9 years ago
“Decades of technological innovation have created a world system so complex and fast-moving that it is quickly becoming beyond human capacity to comprehend, much less manage. If we are to avoid civilizational catastrophe, we need more than clever new tools—we need allies and agents.”
Paul Saffo
Technology Forecaster
Stanford University
9 years ago
“I believe we are migrating toward a networked environment in which thinking is no longer an individual activity, nor bound by time and space.”
Douglas Rushkoff
Media Theorist
Author, Present Shock
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Growing up, did you ever wish your toys could come alive? And they could remember your favorite color, and tell you why the sky is blue? Donald Coolidge and JP Benini did. So they entered—and won—IBM’s Watson Mobile Developer Challenge. Through the challenge, they tapped into Watson’s unique cognitive computing powers in the cloud to build, test, and train what would become their creation: CogniToy. And by giving Watson a seat in the sandbox, they invented a toy dinosaur that learns from kids just as much as it teaches them. Listen to their story →
9 years ago
“Something can be funny without being humorous-with irony. It helps, of course, if the material is amusing, but someone with a sense of humor can make almost anything funny. How something is done or delivered is often more important than what."
Paul Rand
Legendary artist, IBM logo designer
9 years ago
“It is important to use your hands. This is what distinguishes you from a cow or a computer operator.”
Paul Rand
Legendary artist, IBM logo designer
9 years ago
“Invent something that is useful, and, well, that’s great. But invent something that is useful and fun … and you can retire early to the French Riviera.”
INSIDE THE INVENTIVE MIND
Bill Hymas
IBM Software Group, Europe
High Speed Internet Accelerator
9 years ago
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“The people who are saying it can’t be done should get out of the way of those doing it.”
INSIDE THE INVENTIVE MIND
Andy Stanford-Clark
Distinguished Engineer & Master Inventor
Chief Technologist for Smarter Energy
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