The Medici Effect

In his book by the same title, Frans Johansson calls the proliferation of new ideas “the Medici effect”—referring to the remarkable burst of creativity enabled by the Medici banking family in Renaissance Italy.

The assumption is that the best and brightest will find one another and collaborate to innovate, facilitated by the technology itself.

Johansson explains that three driving forces

1) the movement of people
2) the convergence of scientific disciplines
3) and the leap in computational power

are increasing the number and types of intersections we can access.

Fred Smith of FedEx also is making a big splash about the concept of "Access", and I'll explore that later too.