Feedback — Quiz #2: Johnson Introduction
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Question 1
Natural/biological systems and man-made systems can be compared to each other to provide insight into creativity and innovation.
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Question 2
How do Darwin's observations of the coral reef and bio-diversity relate to the development of ideas within cities?
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Ideas can thrive in suppressive environments, much like how reefs flourish in otherwise nutrient-poor waters.
Ideas form at random and don't need any stimulus, much like how reefs are a self-sustaining ecosystem.
Coral reefs only occupy 10% of the planet, much like how cities don't take up much space.
The density of a city encourages faster development of ideas through proximity to diversity.
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Question 3
According to research cited by Johnson, innovations and patents increase with the size of cities.
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Question 4
Kleiber's law follows an unvarying "quarter-power" scaling, where an animal's size and metabolism interrelate: as life gets bigger, it slows down. How
does this concept of scaling relate to the occurrence of innovation in a city and a city's size?
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Kleiber's law does not apply to innovation happening within cities, there is no correlation between the size of a city and
the level of innovation.
The level of innovation in a city in relation to its size follows a positive quarter-power scaling law: a city 50 times bigger
than its neighbor is 130 times more innovative.
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The level of innovation in a city in relation to its size is roughly 1:1.
The level of innovation in a city in relation to its size follows the same negative quarter-power scaling law that governs
animals: a city 50 times bigger than its neighbor is 2.7 times more innovative.
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Question 5
What technological innovation broke the 10/10 rule?
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DVD
YouTube
HDTV
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Graphical User Interface (GUI)
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Question 6
Patterns found in coral reef ecosystems, carbon-based molecules, and the adaptation of new Web software all follow a pattern, reappearing in a
recognizable form at different scales. What is this pattern called?
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Competition
Innovation
Fractal
Tessellation
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Question 7
Johnson's "Long Zoom" model is used to illustrate:
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that nature will always triumph over the human-made world.
that you do not need to analyze innovation on more than one level; patterns of innovation that occur on an individual
level will always be found on a organizational level.
how the same patterns recur on all levels, because highly generative environments display similar patterns of creativity
at multiple scales simultaneously.
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how creativity is a chaotic, random and self-contained entity.
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Question 8
According to Johnson, what is the cultural equivalent of an ecosystem?
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A university
An organization
A settlement
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IKEA
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Question 9
We can become more creative by sharing ideas, connecting with others and crossing borders rather than being protective of ideas and isolating
ourselves.
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Question 10
If you live in a city of five million people, you are likely to be almost three times as creative than an average resident of a town of 100,000.
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