Now that's "a cutting edge idea".
Today, however, catalogues in the mail are not a cutting edge idea.
But Bowie, as with his music, welcomed change and was never far from his next cutting edge idea.
Nonetheless, the boldest moment of "Daydream Believers" is the script's: an opening scene in which a contemporary man tries to sell a laptop-obsessed executive on the "cutting edge" idea of a show about a band, a scene that segues into the series' 1965 pitch.
Fredinburg was the head of privacy for GoogleX, the company's highly secretive, cutting edge ideas lab most famous for the self-driving car.
A software engineer by training, he'd been involved with a long list of startups but his most recent role was at Google where he was director of privacy at Google X, the company's highly secretive, cutting edge ideas lab most famous for giving the world Google's self-driving car.
It's dubbed the Euston Project – the office will be near the station – and Lewis is to be handed a budget of millions (the company refuses to be exact) and a staff of 50 in order to "capitalise on cutting edge ideas" and "drive new revenue streams".
Sure, he admits, not being immersed in tech means you tend to be out of it a little, and it's harder to come up with cutting edge ideas: "When you and everyone you know spend 18 hours a day downloading, hacking, breaking, sharing, gossiping, criticizing and arguing about the Web, it's easier to tell when an idea is truly new.
He is also an avid popularizer of science, using public speaking, videos and books to bring cutting edge ideas to a general audience.
TED is a huge enterprise bringing cutting edge ideas to the world, and local TEDx organizers will no doubt feel a chill when they read Anderson's stern reproof: "It is not your audience's job to figure out if a speaker is offering legitimate science or not.
Raf Simons Knitwear: £465, Dover Street Market Raf Simons is a Belgian designer whose work is inspired by both the art and music scenes, and who also manages to combine classic design with modern cutting edge ideas.
