Technology Revolutions

Indeed, I’ve always had this theory that solar flares do affect the human biosystem, and the human brain to a large degree. It also makes sense because the human brain is an organic electro-mechanical device if you will. If this extra energy does affect the human brain, then it adversely affects it, positively affects it, or some of both. Okay so, I’d like to talk to you a little bit about my hypothesis and theory here, and realize it’s just another one of my theories.

Not long ago, I was reading another great post by KFC on the MIT Physics arXiv Blog titled; “Culturomics and the Google Book Project – The digitization of over five million books has created a huge dataset of cultural interest. Now researchers are beginning to tease it apart using powerful number-crunching techniques.”

Now then, with all this data available it seems that some answers might finally be found to a number of questions. The group doing the research believe; “their approach can produce unique insights into fields such as the evolution of grammar, the adoption of technology, the pursuit of fame, censorship, and historical epidemiology. They even coined a word to describe this new area of science that spans the humanities and social sciences–culturomics.”

Anyway, if you get a chance you might like to read their paper entitled; ” Culturomics Meets Random Fractal Theory: Insights Into Long-Range Correlations Of Social And Natural Phenomena Over The past Two Centuries,” and I now want to ask some other questions of the data to quench my curiosity on the topic of human creativity. What if we did this; you see, we also know when the solar flares have occurred, and when the solar minimums and solar maximums have occurred so, can we match up the data points, is there a correlation?

What if we were to overlay all this information? What if we could determine when the most number of creative works, the most inventions occurred, or when the most patents were filed, and the most new discoveries came judging from when they were written about? Yes, I think there is a lag time between when someone thinks about something, and when they write about it. In fact, I realize that information that I consider I often put on the back burner and think about for a while before I decide to write about it. Today we have the Internet so it’s rather instantaneous, back then the printing presses were slower, but we should still see a relevant pattern there or we won’t.

Nevertheless, we might find some interesting information in this data to either confirm my suspicions, or prove me wrong. The reality is, I don’t care which, I just would like to know. Do solar cycles, atmospheric cycles, lunar cycles and creativity have a correlation? Yes or no? Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Creativity Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net