I am fascinated by big ideas and big thinkers. It is an amazing process to see happen. In defining our thoughts, we are often victims of our own circumstances. Occasionally, those circumstances allow us to see big ideas. Sometimes huge ideas.
E.O. Wilson is a biologist who recently won the 2007 TED Prize. Ed Wilson is a victim of his own circumstance, and in his environment, he sees that we live in an unexplored world. He understands that diversity is the same as stability. He knows that our collective knowledge in biology has not even remotely been cataloged. E.O. Wilson’s dream is to create an Encyclopedia of Life that helps us to track every living species on the planet.
I really like big ideas.