Isaacson’s lecture considers the role creativity plays in yielding novel solutions to scientific, social, and political problems. Isaacson is currently the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, which sponsors policy programs and leadership development initiatives with the goal of finding solutions to pressing global issues. Born in New Orleans, he is a graduate of Harvard University and Pembroke College of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar. A frequent contributor to Time Magazine, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, among other publications, Isaacson is the author of Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography (1992) and coauthor (with Evan Thomas) of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986).
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Einstein, Franklin, and the Role of Creativity in Today`s World
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Open Source - Sir Ken Robinson & John Maeda: Creativity for Breakfast
Both men are titans of the TED conference style of presenting “ideas worth spreading” to the Web. John Maeda emerged at TED two winters ago talking about The Laws of Simplicity, while inside he was reeling toward his own future, head still spinning from Ken Robinson’s TED talk a year earlier on education as a standardized way of crushing invention. Maeda, a star at MIT’s Media Lab, still in his thirties, heard a call from the heavens to “change my life.” And so he did, moving from MIT and the engineering of technology to the presidency of the Rhode Island School of Design and the teaching of art and innovation. After a RISD year that he’s been blogging at every turn, Maeda’s invitation to Robinson to give the commencement address felt like a personal thank-you and maybe an appeal for confirmation. Early on RISD’s graduation day, we had a three-way gab at the Hope Club in Providence about expressiveness and originality, in art and life, across the board.
http://www.radioopensource.org/ken-robinson-john-maeda-creativity-for-breakfast/