“Systems like cognitive computing can continuously read the ever growing amount of information while helping us connect the dots and making it easier to interpret that information in the right context.”

Swiss Re group chief operating officer Thomas Wellauer

http://www.afr.com/technology/swiss-re-brings-ibms-watson-to-australian-life-insurance-20151207-glh34n

“Over the next eight years, three billion new individuals will be coming online, joining the global conversation, and contributing to the global economy. Their ideas—ideas we’ve never before had access to—will result in new discoveries, products, and inventions that will benefit us all.

Peter H. Diamandis

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Simon and Schuster, 2012), Location: 140

The enemy of creativity…

is fear.

We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.

A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.

Seth Godin