CHAPTER 1
What Creativity Means
Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate goal, self-understanding. —EDWARD WILSON
In the late 1990s, NASA launched a mission to Mars named the Martian Climate Orbiter. Its primary objective was to determine the distribution of water on Mars and monitor weather conditions. During the mission, the Orbiter was to communicate with a lander on Mars’s surface, sending data back to NASA for analysis. Unfortunately, there was a communications problem. It appears there was a misunderstanding of terms and measurement systems being used for the path of the Orbiter. NASA provided the ...
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