New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas. Votes: 10
I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy. Votes: 9
Ideas are the currency of the new economy. Votes: 9
Snoop is a tour de force! It's one of the smartest and most original books I've come across in a long time. I devoured it and then rushed over to clean up my desk and change my iPod playlist. Votes: 6
Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making. Votes: 3
Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work"the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of a new social class, the Creative Class. Votes: 3
Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish. Votes: 3
Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence. Votes: 1
Denser cities are smarter and more productive Votes: 0
Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource. Votes: 0
People don't need to be managed, they need to be unleashed. Votes: 0
Places that succeed in attracting and retaining creative class people prosper; those that fail don't. Votes: 0
The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He"or she"is the new mainstream. Votes: 0
Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days"the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism"was fueled by a need to fill a huge emotional and psychological void left by the absence of meaningful work. When people cease to find meaning in work, when work is boring, alienating, and dehumanizing, the only option becomes the urge to consume"to buy happiness off the shelf, a phenomenon we now know cannot suffice in the long term. Votes: 0