Living in the Information Age

I’ve been writing a bit lately about the dangers of living, and believing, in what we are calling the Information Age. One danger is to equate facts with knowledge. Or to hold facts as primacy. Invention itself almost never (if ever!) comes from facts. Rather, invention comes from stepping out of the illusion of facts as reality, solidity, “how things are”, even defying what is commonly called “fact” (remember, the Earth used to be the center of the Universe and the World used to be flat, so much so people were imprisoned and put to death for thinking otherwise). Invention, in other words, comes from dreaming, which is to understand we can step into a new reality at any moment, that life, jobs, governments, and things are all malleable.

To underscore this, here are two great quotes a dreaming friend pointed me to this week, from the founder of Honda, Soichiro Honda:

“I hate college graduates. They only use their heads.”

“The day I stop dreaming is the day I die”

http://www.quoteswise.com/soichiro-honda-quotes-3.html

Happy dreaming!