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N°26 — Ed Finn, Solarpunk, Design Fiction & ASU Center for Science and the Imagination

Near Future Laboratory Podcast

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I Think the Imagination Is the Ignition System for All This Other Stuff

We need to spend more time understand, not just understanding, but actually building up. I think imagination is the ignition system for all this other stuff that we know we want and is really important. We don't have a lot of volitional control over our imagines. There's never any free time in your life when you're not doing something - so use it as much as possible. You'll be surprised by how many people are anxious about using their imagination. That's because they feel like they can't do anything with it. People often call out 'imaginative vocabulary' instead of asking them to imagine what will happen next. And i think there's no such thing as "imag

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