{"id":8026,"date":"2013-06-19T06:03:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T13:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=8026"},"modified":"2013-06-01T06:28:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T13:28:57","slug":"adjacent-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=8026","title":{"rendered":"Adjacent Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his book Where Good Ideas Come From<\/strong><\/a>,<\/em> Steven Johnson introduced me and now probably you to the idea of the “adjacent possible.”\u00a0 The adjacent possible is the area next to what already exists.\u00a0 It is the area that is ripe for the new.\u00a0 Space travel in the 19th century was science fiction.\u00a0 In the 20th Century it was the adjacent possible and it happened.<\/p>\n

Wheelie suitcases were not built successfully until the last two decades of the 20th century because the high tensile strength plastics that make them possible had not yet been invented.\u00a0 So as technologies advance so do the areas that are adjacent and possible.\u00a0 My idea for a motion activated windshield wiper<\/strong><\/a> is adjacent possible to the motion detectors in paper towel dispensers and sinks.<\/p>\n

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These beautiful and functional utensils could not be built until high temperature plastics made them the adjacent possible.<\/em><\/p>\n

The lesson:\u00a0 If you want to build or create something new explore in areas that are adjacent possible to what already exists.<\/p>\n

A review of Where Good Ideas Come From<\/strong><\/a><\/em> will follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his book Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson introduced me and now probably you to the idea of the “adjacent possible.”\u00a0 The adjacent possible is the area next to what already exists.\u00a0 It is the area that is ripe for the new.\u00a0 Space travel in the 19th century was science fiction.\u00a0 In the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideapreneur"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-25s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8028,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026\/revisions\/8028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}