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Ethical Ripples of Creativity and Innovation

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Our outlook conveys where we direct our focus as we navigate into the future as adopters, and perhaps invent the future as creators. If what we ought to do is to create, how might we apply the connections made between creativity and ethics in the Origins chapter? This chapter explores our ethical worries and hopes regarding creativity. Worry dreads a negative outcome, whereas hope strives for a better outcome.

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Moran, S. (2016). Outlook. In: Ethical Ripples of Creativity and Innovation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137505545_2

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