"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye."
"One only understands the things that one tames,"
said the fox. "Men have no more time to
understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere
where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.
"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox.
But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever,
for what you have tamed."
Emergent Innovation:
Innovation occurs when energy and information combine in
ways that haven't occurred
before in a particular environment and find a place in
the ecology of that environment.
Environments that create the maximum opportunity for non-linear
interaction encourage
combination. When these interactions pass a threshold point
of energy and information
exchange, positive returns begin to occur and risk/reward
moves in the intended
direction. Energy-information exists in smaller "chunks"
or "packets" than our logical
categories and requires interaction at this level for maximum
recombination opportunity.
Failure to pass the threshold increases the energy required
on the new and provided
increasing threats to its survival. Success provides a
reduction in energy required to
continue
The environment that holds these recombinations are equally
important. An old idea in a
new environment (time and place) is new. It is as likely
to find a niche as any first
occurrence of recombination. The environment should be
neither too full nor too empty.
Too full means that there is no excess of resources to
nurture the new and likely little
space in which to establish a "fit" to the environment.
Too empty suggests a lack of
opportunity for contact and nourishment and too much space
to explore connection
possibilities.
Explosions of new ideas as well as life forms occur when
there is space in the ecology for
survival without immediate need to provide immediate value
or in some way outperform
what exists already. Disasters and isolation occurrences
like tide pools provide this in
nature. Living things provide this as parents for the young.
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