1. Between light and greyness, we live in exciting times that are sources of creative thoughts.
On the one hand, the brightness of the cognitive revolution underway with recent technological advances, from synthetic biology to artificial intelligence and pervasive computing. On the other, a sort of Victorian memory 'smog age' due to geopolitical tensions, social and economic unrest and uncertainties (from anthropogenic climate change to epidemics). Most people are not comfortable with uncertainty (will the crowds of disruptive technologies crash down on jobs, wiping them out?), openness to the unknown, confident intuition and the freedom of the mind to wander.
