Best of Today: Innovation

Today was about ideas. Not just grand ideas, or overlying AH HA'S!!!! But today was really about innovation. Minute distinctions that are refined for changing times. This was done in the discussion on the word facile. Believe it or not, this actually had an incredible impact on my outlook of genius.

I learned that genius today didn't always have to be discovering the theory of relativity, or creating the world's first computer. But, that it was about refinement and adaptation of the little things to adapt to the culture around you. It was about the little things and what today's society would inherently swarm towards. 

Mr. Allen brought this idea of curation to the table, the process of pooling together information and presenting it on one search engine that would provide incredible analysis and aid, catering to what web surfers like us, need. At first, I thought it was nothing more than a good website, simply taking out the step of searching a term on google, that it was nothing more than a convenience, nonetheless, the "next big thing".

Then, I saw it. 

1) convenience is HUGE in today's society- that in itself was genius

2) The process of information was completely different. The beauty of this idea was it broke from the "scripted code" of sites like google and bing, detracting from the thesis and core of these sites, not presenting the information in an advertised order.

It's actually quite amazing.

It's amazing to see how much these minute things, have the biggest impact on how we view this world.