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Imagination is Underrated
Imagination opens doors to a surreal amount of possibility.
Fostering the imagination can have some amazing influence over mundane matters. How? Imagination is how technology grows, changes, and evolves — which in turn helps you and me to grow, change, and evolve.
Look at the world of a hundred years ago. Personal computers were non-existent, let alone pocket-sized and capable of global communications. There were 7.5 million cars in the US, compared to the nearly 275 million cars today (even accounting for population growth, that’s 7% of the population having cars then vs 84% having cars today). Air travel was still in its infancy, and not capable of the speed nor distances modern planes can fly.
Why am I bringing all of that up? Because all of these things were in someone’s imagination to begin with. They were a fanciful idea somebody held, that they then turned into reality.
Want another example? How much of the technology from Star Trek is actual today? Communicators (flip-phones, which have actually become antiquated already), data pads (iPads and Galaxy tablets and the like), and video chat are all common. These were dreams of science fiction half-a-century ago.
This is why I find it deeply concerning when schools cut funding for the arts. At the same time, it makes perfect sense when you see…
