A failure of imagination - how getting everything handed to
our senses - is fueling a generation of rusty brains. By this I mean,
technology is delivering most everything to us, which requires little of us -
in terms of thinking or imagining.
Take a science fiction book, for example -
preferably a book with few pictures. As you read the words on the page, you
brain engages to create images, sounds, smells, etc. in your mind. Yes, you
are being entertained, but you are also "in the moment," and making
it real by virtue of your imagination.
Contrast that with a high-action motion picture that does all the imaginative work for you. It requires very little in the way of our creativity. It satisfies our sense
of sight, hearing, etc.
I theorize that that effortless feeding of our senses
actually dulls our imagination, making it more difficult to be creative
and think outside the box.
In an environment of effortless stimulation,
would it be possible for another Einstein to flourish in creativity. Food for
thought. Assume nothing.
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