Mile-High Musings on Arts, Culture, Creativity and Philanthropy

There is a fascinating post on Edge , the Web site of the Edge Foundation. I found my way to them through a tweet about an article they published by Charles Leadbeater on the impact cloud computing will have on creativity. I know Leadbeater's work from my time in Private Sector affairs at Americans for the Arts, and before that the national Arts & Business Council. He is an internationally renowned expert on creativity and innovation. First off, I have to say, I was fascinated by Edge itself, a dense collection of provocative content from a global array of great minds; also quirky, eccentric, ideosycratic. It has been around since 1988, on the web since 1997 - how could I have missed it? Glad I stumbled onto it - it is now bookmarked! He analyzes the growing emergence of "cloud computing" - computing where the information is stored remotely and everyone can access their data from anywhere, using an array of different platforms - and provides a useful metaphor - di...