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We change directions to discuss the implications of a society where a portion of its creative output begins to increase significantly. Although we associate creativity with particular individuals more times than not, especially in the Pro-C category of creativity, rarely does the creative product represent the work of one individual, working in a vacuum, isolated. We point out that high levels of organizational creativity requires expertise that approach problems imaginatively motivated, either by the organization itself, or intrinsically as within the nature of the specific individuals. As we become swept up by the confluence of biological entities, at the phylogenic level (gene engineered), society at the sociogenic level and technology at the technogenic level, we will see profound changes in civilization as we know it.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we create the world.—The Buddha
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829), held that an organism can pass on characteristics that it has acquired through use or disuse during its lifetime to its offspring, which, except for some untested hypotheses related to gene-expression, does not otherwise appear borne out by modern science, but his ideas strongly suggest that cultural inheritance does follow a model where cultural traits are passed on to successive generations.
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A rough timeline of historical progress discloses the Bronze Age with writings, philosophy, religion, art and music, burgeoning throughout the world, Egyptian pyramids 3000–1200 BCE; Greece, art, architecture, literature, philosophy 500–300 BCE; Rome art, language (Roman alphabet), literature, civil law, civil and architectural engineering, 100 BCE–350 CE; Mayan calendars, mathematics, astronomy, art 1000 BCE–900 CE; China art, literature, music, philosophy, science, papermaking, printing, gunpowder, compass, 200 CE–1100CE; Islamic Golden Age, agriculture, the arts, economics, industry, law, literature, navigation, philosophy, sciences, sociology, and technology, 800 CE–1400 CE; Renaissance 1300–1600 CE; Scientific Revolution, 1500–1600 CE; Industrial Age 1750–1850 CE; Computer Age; Information Age.
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Nikolay D. Kondratyev, Encyclopædia Britannica, see, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nikolay-D-Kondratyev (Last visited 10/5/2019).
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Leonardo da Vinci, one of the most prolific inventor of the last Millennium made numerous machines, but his notebooks contained even greater numbers inventions that could not be realized due a lack of some essential knowledge, technology or material. Early Renaissance inventors were constrained to materials such as metals, wood or leather to shape and fashion their ideas. Although Venetians learned how to make colorless and transparent glass in the late 1200s, and which was used for a variety of utensils, they were largely unavailable to the experimenter dabbling in clocks, optical instruments, or precision tools. Although da Vinci must have understood that glass shaped in the certain ways made things larger when he proposed to “make glasses in order to see the moon large.” See, Codice Atlantico, Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks, II, 190 r.a.; and of course Galileo invented and reduced the telescope to practice in 1609.
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Thomas Friedman speaks to the acceleration of this sort to technology in Thank You for Being Late (2017). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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A subdivision of a population consisting of closely related plants, animals, or people.
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Two important developments on the world stage make the point how individuals, socially driven memes, and technology combined to affect political institutions, which in turn affected global security, economics and nature, as related to global warming. The Iranian revolution of 2009 was energized largely by Twitter and Facebook to protest what many Iranians considered a flawed presidential election. As demonstrations came alive via Twitter, the Iranian regime also used the Web, to identify protesters, via photos and associated personal information, and then widely disseminated propaganda, which when combined with shootings, tear gassing and arrests, put the restive population into a state of paranoia, which had the effect of tamping down the marches. See, Editorial: Iran’s Twitter revolution. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/16/irans-twitter-revolution (Last visited 3/18/2018). The 2016 elections in the U.S. and the U.K. were influenced by operatives, who used social media platforms to sway the election in two of the world’s oldest democracies. In March 2018, The Guardian reported that a data analytics firm worked with Donald Trump’s election team and the winning Brexit campaign to harvest millions of Facebook profiles of voters. Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach, see, The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election (Last visited 3/18/2018). See, https://grist.org/article/russian-trolls-shared-some-truly-terrible-climate-change-memes/.
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We see signs of this in the emergence of supersized organizations throughout the world: Amazon, Jingdong, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Alibaba, Rakuten, B2W Companhia Digital, Groupon, Zalando, and eBay.
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Carvalko Jr., J.R. (2020). Timeless Borderless Creativity. In: Conserving Humanity at the Dawn of Posthuman Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26407-9_48
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