Why Creativity is the New Economy - Richard Florida

[@christianjt]

Creative Entrepreneurs ARE the new economy. Well said

[@drewzzr1]

Dan Pink wrote a great book called "A whole new Mind" which expands and builds upon the content of this video. Concentration, re-invention and self discovery, not expansion is the long term solution to human sustainability. Inspirational lecture.

[@odinviken]

totally agree! its a creative and innovative take on human society! we need change. radical change!

[@beyamoth]

I see where you are coming from but that type of thinking has a very simplistic view of what creativity is.

[@ESQAZIZ]

Thoroughly inspiring. The need to think outside the box and help stimulate rural development.

[@JD13enson]

Higher trust enables individuals to collaborate much more efficiently and collaboration is key to creativity, as Dr. Florida pointed out. Trust, creativity, collaboration are all essential to create a brighter future. Unfortunately our religions, politicians and corporations provide large barriers that inhibit our collaboration, it's our job to find a way around these barriers or bring them down all together!..

[@BrighamBartol]

"technology races ahead of our socioeconomic order" - you've hit the nail on the head.

[@chetanuppal3394]

sir, you need to be explicit about definition about creativity,....people seem to be confusing (deliberately) it to fit themselves into that category...

[@KnightsTemplarChurch]

You are right I am struggling now, but I see a path and it's lined with changes that will ROCK THE WORLD! Here me know, I profess I will be known. What I am going to is selfless and focuses on others. Massive amounts of money are coming but I am keeping very little and feeding and educating and giving homes to the homeless and under studied men and women. I have afforded a life of study and it's all coming together. I am going to make money meaningless and it's going to ROCK THE WORLD. Because it is so much about LOVE and less about GREED. Soon, you will see this start in Detroit, and the world will want to be like this, because Detroit will be the CITY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.

[@ModestoLLB]

Wise man once said: You cannot resolve a problem while still thinking the same way you did when you created it. Changing the way you think is the new form of evolution.

[@eilishvictoria]

If you think that creativity is just about being an artist, writer or musician you've misunderstood entirely...

[@fullfist]

95% people in creativity sectors, how do you imagine that's supposed to work? . this guy is throwing around ideas without rooting them anywhere, without giving them greater meaning .

[@AnnoyedDragon]

I think we've had all the creativity from financial services as we can take...

[@Helle534]

The crash in 1990 was much worse than 2009 as I remember. I actually lost a lot of money this year. In 2009, it was only a sharp drop on the stock market that you can hardly call a crash.

[@vonkruel]

So long as we're trying to continue on with obsolete political & economic institutions, all the creativity in the world can't help us. We have all the technology we need *right now* to create abundance on this Earth. Our problem is that we're very badly organized ; our technology races ahead of our socioeconomic order. Jobs and growth are not the answer. We need an economic model where zero growth is OK, and where increasing unemployment does not imply increasing hardship.

[@ALEXKOUPI]

What truely drives growth is Innovation, and innovation comes not from companies, it may occuring companies it comes out of our communities and our cities

[@TechSpaghetti]

Interesting talk. Lots of business leaders agree that creativity needs to be fostered, but are we doing enough in schools to promote it? Look up Ken Robinson for some other great videos on this topic

[@s02tube]

it can make sense. if you invest in a company that made a sucesseful innovative leap, like new indie games, you did it because you hope that company will lead to another leap. Others investors will gain more trust in that company because someone already did, and they also may will try to find the next innovative leap in that same field. So the risk in the indie games decreases allowing new types of game to be commercialized in larger scale. this speech is a praise for intelectual property of all

[@SerpentStare]

Definitely. New technology can still help that process, mind, but the greatest shifts will, of course, have to be in worldview and in our habits, our practice, our values, et cetera.

[@billp4]

Yeah yeah, creativity. We have to harness it and then offshore it.

[@EvaGreenFanPennyDreadful]

Thank you for this.

[@AllanLento]

i don't know if it's the suit or the voice, but i kept thinking of Don Draper..nice to know creative people have more power than i thought , cool!

[@MrIzzyDizzy]

there is no reason except the creed of greed and the force of ownership - why education -transportation - housing - medical care - food - clothing and all the basics of a good life - cant be made so abundant - to be free with automation and small amount of volunteer labor. - after that if we want to impose scarcity - labor and ownership on other things so be it - but hopefully we can create abundance for all of the things that really matter.

[@supermassvanity]

Will watch that, thanks.

[@fhanoverartist]

It's important to read the book first before watching this. The book is full of actual data and details that you can't condense into a "talk."

[@Finkster071]

To have more points of view on things. If you have more points of view or a more diverse look on something, you will appear to be more creative than someone who only has 1 point of view. A creative builder could be someone who has studied architecture from different countries, while a builder who has only studied American ways of building, may be seen as less creative.

[@manuelmanuel9248]

Does Mr. Florida know that most of technological innovation is subsidized or completely financed by the federal government including the internet, cel phone components and aeronautics to name a few?

[@crowkangi]

great talk. he reminds me of Saul Goodman!

[@mrzack888]

it is. richest people are rappers, celebrities, hollywood actors, top youtube channels, and novelists.

[@NawidN]

Very well said.

[@ConsideringSilesia]

Suit & tie = creative?

[@DXtreme_Official]

Resource Based Economy !!!!!

[@Helle534]

He talked about crashes 1929 and 2009 but apparently forgot that we had in 1990, which was much worse than 2009. Is there anyone who agrees with this?

[@UniversalPotentate]

He's suggesting our resources are best devoted to cities focused on educating people on how to use their natural creativity to produce better technological solutions AND that people must be educated on community dynamics and teamwork. Yeah ... OK. I'll buy that.

[@udhvs2012]

He dresses like an FBI agent

[@EdridaPulungan]

inspiring idea

[@AlisonChism]

I think that the optimism is refreshing, but, the real innovation needs to be in the human heart and mind. Profit needs to be a secondary motive and at this time we as a species still lionize the uber wealthy. Life is better if you are wealthy and I do not know if that reality will ever change.

[@MakinMovies7]

It's like watching 'Glengarry Glen Ross'.

[@deborahferguson1163]

Good talk !!!!

[@kaimina6]

i believe, that the main problem is the motivation of people with power, it is true we have the technological advances to use our resources in a much better and efficient way but there is no economical interest to do that by the big companies and consuquently by the government. Therefore i think the solution is more mental and philosophical and not so much economic but maybe that's just me

[@scottparsons]

He works with MIB. They call him R.

[@ModestoLLB]

Amen to that.

[@williamjpiano]

sadly public biases prevail and such ideas are not feasible :( For me, I will at least try to influence the public against such biases through free education

[@QuaabQueb]

If people like you and me know this then it CAN be done,

[@Brains-GPTt]

Brilliant

[@daniaalkhalaf2136]

amazing

[@TakanashiYuuji]

I feel like this talk could have been under 10 minutes if he had some slides with all the numbers he rattles off. The anecdotes serve no purpose to reinforce his story, perhaps to buff his persona? Creativity and innovation come to fruition when there is opportunity.

[@mohamedstarwars]

You might know about The Venus Project introduced by Jacque Fresco, it is a good idea, considering its objectives, but I don't think it can ever come true!

[@mr82769]

Right before the mentionning of Scranton, Pennsylvania I was thinking: "This guy is somewhat of a Michael Scott...".

[@adnalie]

but i agree innovation comes from communities, not corporations. supporting local, supporting independent helps us but corporations squash them out, put them out of business, buy them out.

[@TheLivirus]

I just watched a TED talk titled "The Currency of the New Economy is Trust". And this talk claims "Creativity is the New Economy". ...so what they're saying is "Trust is the Currency of Creativity"? :/ Doesn't make any sense.

[@beyamoth]

What do you mean by this?

[@Dennis_Fishing_WA]

can anyone tell me 5 main point?

[@Shadow850031]

When someone talks nonsense (hardly have time to explain why it is nonsense and you can find many clues in the comments already) in such circumstances that such a speech/talk can be accepted as a serious and factual... sometimes it is just too difficult for me to remain silent and, as you call it, mature. Not everything is a matter of opinion or view. Even the thoughts in RSA intro contrasts what follows later in the actual talk. And that is sadly not for the first time.

[@MrSammo1]

It's time for The Venus Project. Control by monetary abstraction has to go.

[@thunderraydiamond7655]

creativevity , what is it ???

[@hla27b]

Postulating that major recessions foster creativity while carefully avoiding to mention that all of these coincided with major wars? Hmm...

[@SlamDuncan888]

Why do I feel like I should be sitting in an uncomfortable chair with a free notepad and pen and drinking stale coffee from a Styrofoam cup?

[@smicksmookety]

what about web services....They're the software that becomes the major good and you can't pirate that. Most software is sold to corporations and is useless to a single individual anyway.

[@fullfist]

in this day and age , gotta be PC, my friend, even at the cost of truth

[@TheMoQingbird]

Huh? Did I just tune in to the Oprah show?

[@TheDuttzz]

what is "creativity?"

[@alauc]

RF is not very creative person and we should look for better person to promote the creative city etc. I do hope that RSA can help here.

[@ModestoLLB]

The funniest comment made so far on this thread. -probably.

[@Shadow850031]

Even if English would be my mother-tongue language it would require too much effort to do that as there is nothing plain about it. Look at the top comment for some clues if you wish.

[@fs06jope]

Special for our species? How do you think hammer sharks of sword fish developed their tools, definitely not because of their creativity to use ther bodies in a new fashion that their ancestors did not...

[@santiagollanojimenez2408]

Hey, subtitles are probably not got at all: look the video again in time 0:45, 1:30, 1:34; 1:55, 3:41: ¿our new cock?; 4:27: all a few min history?, 4:35: you look at the way you mean beings?, 4:57: scar marks?, the twelfth?, 5:12: and you in physical labor?, 5:39 the bowling?, 6:01: that this country?, 6:12 something check?, 6:55: you book?, 7:30: technology %eh, 8:15: made youmankind more, 8:40 you mean creativity, 10:22: tech rock holy,etc... and tell me please if i'm wrong or not. if this hesitation was right, what stays behind the person or group of pleople who do/does such a thing in order to manipulate this sort of information with such intentions or coincidences?

[@ConsideringSilesia]

Uniform = conform

[@adnalie]

70% of the population living in cities? how can we squeeze in more people into where 50% have been living for years? does he mean the natural environment has to urbanize? this is not optimistic.

[@acazsouza]

Why? Explain in plain words.

[@StillLateToTheParty]

another member of the leisure class spouts some theories...

[@TsunaNarutoLuffy]

no because its not nearly as bad as 2009

[@ModestoLLB]

Protect creativity, support SOPA! -not.

[@marsfal2012]

His wobbling is unbearable to watch… had to just listen.

[@AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada]

This guy is in a pot of trouble. Either disabused or a quack. If Jesus said starting now but you still have to pay MasterCard.....lol

[@poiupupu]

Empty.

[@depaarsepanter]

there is a hot blonde in the first row with killer heels.. oh did i get distracted by this not so creative presentation? ha!

[@ERRATICCHEESE2]

This video is egomaniacal.