Wired's "Idea Shop": Now Open For Business

Wired Mag--which has always thought of itself first and foremost as an "idea shop"--just announced the latest addition to their online hub of technology and creativity: Wired Opinion, "a new section offering...argument and provocation from some of the world’s most innovative thinkers and doers." They've been prepping over the past few months by inviting "Wire-minded" people like Philippe Starck, James Dyson, Catherina Fake and Neal Stephenson to offer commentary, debate and conversation. 

To offer you a quick example:

Starck wrote about "Creativity, Money and Sex," and the ideal environment to foster creativity. "For me," he said," it helps to live a sort of modern monk's life. I go early to bed and wake up a little earlier than others because the peak - the hormonal peak of creativity - is around seven o'clock in the morning." He adds that this can't be an intoxicated seven am wake up call, one addled by drugs or poisoned by "industrial food." So what's his breakfast of champions? "You have to go to the gym and have a lot of sex." We suppose that's what he meant by modern monk.

You might disagree with Starck (though we're willing to test his theory), and you might also disagree with Stephenson's Inspiration Theory and Hieroglyph Theory, but that's how great conversations start. Which you know is something we'll forever get behind.

So idea generators, get generating: Digest the theories and opinions of those at Wired and then share your own. Head here now.

-- Perrin Drumm