Change or Die
Few aphorisms so pithily capture the ethos of contemporary
technoscience. "Change or die" evokes the making of new technologies in
an environment of rapid disruption. Entrepreneurial, goal-oriented
research upends the administrative and financial structures of entire
industries. Simultaneous advances in a diverse range of fields intersect
to produce research opportunities and new markets. Hybrid teams of
experts coalesce and dissolve across disciplinary, institutional, and
national boundaries. The result is a chaotic engine of accelerating
progress that brings great reward to the survivors. It is an expression
of Darwinian logic that applies to economics, to knowledge making, and,
most of all, to the knowledge workers charged with living in a state of
creative flow.
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