8. selection by research
❖ we can select by doing
research: that’s about what’s
true and false; what’s
documented and what’s not…
❖ verification handbook
❖ http://
verificationhandbook.com
26. Exponentiality is not a given
On Singularities and
Black Holes in
Combination-Driven
Models of Technological
Innovation Networks.
by Ricard Solé, Daniel R.
Amor, Sergi Valverde.
Plos.
33. Patterns of evolution
❖ Imagination (process of creation)
❖ Connection (enabling environment)
❖ Selection (choice of what survives and thrives)
34. Innovation
Five Dangerous Lessons
to Learn From Steve Jobs
1. Customers don’t know what they want
2. Maintain obsessive secrecy
3. Project a reality-distortion field
4. Micromanage every detail
5. Beat people up
http://www.forbes.com/sites/
chunkamui/2011/10/17/five-dangerous-
lessons-to-learn-from-steve-jobs/print/
36. innovation is…
❖ …not a new thing…
❖ … it is a new thing that is adopted thus changes a story,
or history
❖ adopted means that people make that thing become part
of their lives
❖ There is some common narrative, a shared vision, an
understanding of the technology, a meaning and a use
value that is understood. And it just works
38. convergence
❖ Digital humanities are part of the innovation process…
❖ … because a common understanding needs a technical
narrative and a meaningful technology
41. Readings
❖ Exponential organizations http://www.slideshare.net/vangeest/
exponential-organizations-h
❖ THE BARABÁSI-ALBERT MODEL http://barabasilab.neu.edu/
networksciencebook/download/network_science_december_ch5_2013.pdf
❖ BarabàsiLab: http://www.barabasilab.com and read some chapters of Link
http://www.barabasilab.com/LinkedBook/index.html
❖ Innovation Killers. How Financial Tools Destroy your Capacity to do New
Things, by Clayton Christensen, Stephen Kaufman and Willy Shih, 2008,
Harvard Business Review