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The Genius of the Tinkerer (wsj.com)
75 points by mgdiaz on Sept 25, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



He gave a TED talk recently which covers these ideas: http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_com...


>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.

What a beautiful thought for the entrepreneur in all of us.


I wish I could upvote this article twenty times.  The references to evolution are telling and echo the sentiment of open source projects.  This article may have  convinced me to start a local programming group.  Adjacent possibilities...I'll be stewing on that for a long while. 


I think you'll definitely like James Burke's old BBC series "Connections", available on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesBurkeWeb




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