Rising above boundaries: The transformative role of lateral thinking
IN 1968, a good, but not exceptional, athlete won the high jump gold medal at the Olympics. The man, Dick Fosbury, leapt...
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IN 1903, Mark Twain wrote a letter to Helen Keller. She had been accused of plagiarism. Twain consoled her, writing that “substantially...
End of tedium? How AI impacts the creative sector
CHATGPT may be all the rage now, but some Singapore creatives have been working with artificial intelligence (AI) content-generation tools long before...
How to reverse the West’s creativity crisis
SOCIETIES can suffer from famines of the mind as well as famines of the belly. Ideas wither on the vine; plants turn...