I experimented with a mid-length exposure here, as it was a blend of day and night shots.
OK, ok, enough about rockets.
I need to head out and try to think like a techonomist.
When we consider the combinatorial explosion of possibly interacting ideas as the fountainhead of innovation, it not only creates the economy and explains accelerating change, it also subsumes biological evolution (raising the primary vector of progress to a higher level of abstraction) and nurtures a rational optimism for the future.
(blending Adam Smith, Matt Ridley, Richard Dawkins, Ray Kurzweil & Brian Arthur)
And stitched together by some fine dinner conversation with Matt Ridley (just before his TED Talk):
“Self-sufficient is another way of saying impoverished.”
“Innovation = ideas having sex.”
“There is literally nobody on the planet who knows how to make a computer mouse.”
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