The Future Of Ideas

This confusion is leading us to change the environment in ways that will change the prosperity.

Plasticity—the ability of a system to evolve easily in a number of ways—is optimal in a world of uncertainty.

en years ago,” Guggenheim explains, “if incidental artwork . . . was recognized by a common person,” then you would have to clear its copyright. Today, things are very different. Now “if any piece of artwork is recognizable by anybody . . . then you have to clear the rights of that and pay” to use the work. “[A]lmost every piece of artwork, any piece of furniture, or sculpture, has to be cleared before you can use it.”1