Kevin Ashton
The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery. William Heinemann, 2015Aus der Beschreibung des Verlags:
„There is a myth about how something new comes to be; that geniuses have dramatic moments of insight where great things and thoughts are born whole. Poems are written in dreams. Symphonies are composed complete. Science is accomplished with eureka shrieks. Businesses are built by magic touch. The myth is wrong. Anyone can create. Necessity is not the mother of invention. We all are. Technology pioneer Kevin Ashton takes us behind the scenes of creation to reveal the true process of discovery. From Archimedes to Apple, from Kandinsky to the Coke can, from the Wright brothers – who set out to ‚fly a horse‘ – to Woody Allen, he exposes the seemingly unremarkable individuals, gradual steps, multiple failures and countless ordinary and often uncredited acts that led to our most astounding breakthroughs.“
Für Lehrpersonen eignet sich dieses kleine Buch als Lektüre: es zeigt auf, dass kreative Menschen in unserer Gesellschaft bewundert werden, dass Kreativität aber gleichzeitig Ängste in uns auslöst und wir deshalb în der Schule dazu neigen, kreative Lernende eher schlechter zu beurteilen als „durchschnittliche“ Lernende.
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