Joi Ito: Want to innovate? Become a "now-ist"

“Remember before the internet?” asks Joi Ito. “Remember when people used to try to predict the future?” In this engaging talk, the head of the MIT Media Lab skips the future predictions and instead shares a new approach to creating in the moment: building quickly and improving constantly, without waiting for permission or for proof that you have the right idea. This kind of bottom-up innovation is seen in the most fascinating, futuristic projects emerging today, and it starts, he says, with being open and alert to what’s going on around you right now. Don’t be a futurist, he suggests: be a now-ist.

Simulating the Big Bang and Ugly Animal Society Takes a Stand! - IFLScience

ORIGINAL: IFLScience
By Elise Andrew 

Sep 6, 2013

This week on IFLS, evidence that life may have come from Mars, a building that melts cars and enough with saving pandas, ugly animals need some love too! All that and more on this week of IFLS!

Read More About This Week's Stories:

Mars: http://www.theguardian.com/science/20...

Ovarian tissue transplant: http://www.theage.com.au/national/hea...

Ugly animals society: http://uglyanimalsoc.com/

Trojan: http://www.space.com/22590-uranus-tro...

Big bang simulation: http://www.universetoday.com/104479/b...

Scientist survey: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08...

Microbes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-env...

Fastest spinning man made object: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sci...

Building melts cars: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-...

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