Every innovation starts off as a delusion.
- Every innovation starts off as a delusion.
- An innovation requires doing something that goes against the status quo.
- A delusion, as far as everyone else is concerned.
- But some delusions, if they turn out to be useful and actually be viable, are revealed to be innovations.
- Does the startup idea cohere into an Apple… or a Theranos?
- Hallucinations, delusions, are where the capacity to imagine something different comes from.
- Without hallucination, nothing outside of the status quo would ever happen.
- Everything would just pull towards the heat death of uniformity.