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Don’t Fear Sharing Your Imagination
Never fear — but embrace your imagination.
Even the most fictional notion of the imagination can change the world.
All the modern technology that we take for granted was not-so-long-ago naught but the product of someone’s imagination. And I mean all the tech — because for about 500 years the progress of humankind was relatively slow.
I’m not saying there was no progress — because there was. But it was slow. Part of that was because it was impossible to convey an idea over a broad distance faster than a horse could carry someone with it.
But with the industrial revolution came faster changes. Mass production of tools altered how industries worked. Progress started to pick up speed.
From 1900 to 2000, progress was exponentially accelerated. From having just over half a million telephones to a billion cellular phones, the first powered flight to a reusable space shuttle, and almost unbelievable medical advancements in diagnosis and treatment — on multiple levels, humans progressed more in a hundred years than they had for nearly a century.
All this progress was the result of untethered imagination. New ideas were not just conceived of but turned into reality.
