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As we rejoin the global economy, where Americans are faced with competitors in other countries who will work for far less money than we will, we must become innovators in order to survive. Workers in other countries may end up making the things we used to make, but they will still look to us when determining what to make, as long as we continue to set the trends by coming up with new products and ideas.
According to Blaine McCormick, author of “At Work with Thomas Edison,” the inventor “….deplored formal education. He believed it ruined your ability to think. To Edison, the ABC’s of education stood for “Avoid Being Creative.” ”
Puzzles and challenges like these are irresistible to the brainiacs that are desired by Google, and they respond even if they didn’t intend to look for a new job. Google uses these tactics to attract the quality applicants needed for its continued success.
The powers that be at Google came up with a system that breaks free of traditional hiring practices and brings the right people to their doorstep quickly and easily. It includes placing aptitude tests in “geek” magazines including “Physics Today” and “Mensa,” resulting in a flood of answers sent in by candidates.

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Episodic future thought and remembering
Seeing the Future and fMRI
Lack of Imagination in Older Adults Linked to Declining Memory
if you are feeling a little fatigued by your high energy, vivid, imaginative, dreamy, personal learner, also count your blessings. In other studies, a loss of imagination (in older adults) was seen to be associated decline in personal memory.
These days, imagination seems to carry little weight in importance as students advance in their K-12 years of education, but this is a mistake. Students may not always know how to use their memories and imaginations well, but efficient applications of both are the essential ingredients for almost all creative and innovative work.
And on the other end of the continuum, is that why vivid personal learners can be such intractable daydreamers? They can perceive such vivid possibilities of imagined events, that external events may find it hard to compete.
When a child has trouble imagining themselves in future events or circumstances, is it simply a lack of planning, or could a weakness in their personal memory make it hard for them to visualize what this situation would be like.
Washington University scientists have found that the patterns of brain activation seen in vivid recollections of the past are very closely linked to prompted imaginations of the future.

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80 On the absence of women in the history of technology

[Cowan, Pursell, Masters, engineering]
89 On saying goodbye to lighthouses and cabooses

[obsolete, obsolescence]
94 The Black boxing of technology

[education, invention]
29 The Windmill: A device that has come, gone, and may come again

[Cervantes, Quixote, power, propeller, Watt]
63 Some thoughts about engineering systems

[design]

64 Rudolf Diesel and his wonderful engine

[engine, power, priority, internal combustion]
55 How we name our machines

[flight, airplane, refrigerator, engine, machine, computer, steam engine, automobile]

56 An encounter with Einstein

[science]
49 Some technology that we don't see when we first look

[horn, gears, 3-M, invention]
45 Fahrenheit and thermometry

[heat, science, Newton]
42 Our radar warning of the Pearl Harbor attack

[communications, war, Hulsmeyer]
15 Early inventions of the electric telegraph

[Morse, electrostatic, Watson, LeSage]
11 Electric lights in the 80 years before Edison

[arc light, incandescent, Grove, Swan, Davy, de la Rue]
10 The Medieval character of the wild West

[America, saddle, whiskey, log cabin, cowboy, White]