Looking Forward

Abstract

According to Steven Carter, author of ‘Where good ideas come from?’ the great driver of scientific and technological innovation has been the historic increase in connectivity. Indeed, we are witnessing what Kurzweil called the law of accelerating returns with each new innovation building on prior innovations and also often becoming infrastructure for future innovations. The OI2 innovation paradigm is based on extensive networking and co-creative collaboration between all actors in society, spanning organizational boundaries well beyond normal licensing and collaboration schemes. With the ever-increasing speed and rate of connectivity, we are creating a giant global intellectual supercollider and the possibility exists that people and machines alike may participate in a giant neural network, which spans the globe.