From: "jeffrey E." <[email protected]> To: Joi Ito <, Subject: Re: Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 17:10:53 +0000 solutions like nouns are the end. of a computation . questions are the beginning and middle. . open ended . like the name joi. its much more authentic to say you are joing. in process of change . bounded by the object know as a joi On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Joi Ito < > wrote: One other thought. Have been thinking that engineers like to "solve" things. Are answers to questions "solutions"? How is the role of imagination? What about "what if?" questions rather than questions with solutions? - Joi > On Jun 7, 2015, at 10:02 AM, Joi Ito <1 > wrote: > • "mean but funny..)" Am I the only one who is every mean and funny to you? If so, it's important I think. For your fitness. > The question is great, but the question about the question, or the question of what is the "highest" question or an even "better question is also sort of funny. It's recursive up in a weird way. > - Joi >> On Jun 7, 2015, at 9:01 AM, jeffrey E. leevacation®gmail.com> wrote: >> mean but funny..) ; if you have read kant his principles are equivalent to arrows in cat theory. he did not have the formal apparatus to analyze. . amusing. economics is a description of the category of exchanges. . it is not limited to money or information , it is a process , not a noun >> >> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Joi Ito <S> wrote: >> Not your old age question? » :-) >> It's like Jeopardy except that Watson won't have the answer. >> >> One of my faculty, Cesar Hidalgo, recently wrote a book called "Why Information Grows". http://www.amazon.com/Why-Information-Grows-Evolution-Economies/dp/0465048994 >> I haven't read it yet, but I've had some conversations with him. He's trying to approach it from a physics perspective and agues that life is "information" and "order". Not sure this is right. >> "What is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only