Admittedly, Paris doesn't have many skyscrapers (presumably one of the sine qua nons of big cityness), but its role as "a generator of ideas, as well as of manners and fads and fashions," is indisputable -- and has been since the 18th century, when the philosophes rewrote the social contract.
It's now a decade since the author Steven Johnson wrote an inspiring New York Times essay about his own digital "tools for thought", explaining how his archive of research notes had become not just an electronic filing cabinet but an extension of his brain, a generator of ideas, even a kind of collaborator in his work.
"Kader's piece at Documenta summarized all the issues central to the show, like changing notions of beauty, colonialism and its impact on cultures, and the importance of archives as both a means of preserving memory and a generator of ideas," Glenn D. Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, said by telephone.
Among the measures that will be announced by Secretary Clinton in New Delhi is an expansion of the CEO Forum, an advisory group of senior American and Indian business leaders that has proven a useful generator of ideas and political mobilization.
And one hears, as Mathabane speaks so carefully--always seeming to weigh perception against reality, fury against logic--an intellect constantly refining itself; a man tuning himself into a more astute receptor and generator of ideas.
The key to training the next generation of idea-generators is an education in hands-on, curiosity-intensive STEM education, and the only economically viable source for this: EdTech startups.
The campaign now relies on Trump himself to be the generator of its ideas.
I believe he will accomplish much as a generator of new ideas and help bring about new tendencies in theater".
The best plans provide a foundation on which to grow a business the driver of economic development and generator of innovative ideas in hospitality.
