The history of civilization is the history of creativity. You cannot talk meaningfully about the past without bringing up the most important people and inventions of the time. We are here today because of the creativity of the past. Creativity and culture are inseparable. In no small way, creative people are responsible for the world
Stream this episode of the Kaizen Creativity Podcast below or listen on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Listen Online Steve Martin is one of my all-time favorite creative people. What makes him so special is that he somehow managed to rebel against a group of comedians who were themselves in a rebellion.
In the summer of 1919, Henry Ford, the automobile tycoon, was placed on the witness stand ready to be questioned by a defense attorney for the Chicago Tribune. It was an odd case to be in court, even by today’s standards. Ford was suing the Chicago Tribune for slander. Specifically, for being called an ignorant
We all hate filling out Captcha forms every time we log into a website, but there’s a certain genius to Captcha that many people don’t know is there.CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart”. It’s… quite a handful. It came about as a creative response to an ever
In the 1960’s a computer had successfully created stanzas of a haiku that were judged by participants as making some kind of sense. That’s the earliest example I know of anything minimally passing as creativity. One of the earliest discoveries in science by a computer came from a niche of organic chemistry. The computer (DENDRAL)