Medici Effect: What You Can Learn from Elephants and Epidemics

CHAPTER two

	The Rise of Intersections
	THE SOUNDS OF SHAKIRA AND THE EMOTIONS OF SHREK

THE STORY about the brain science team and their rhesus monkey is a story of our times. It reflects an increasingly interconnected world where concepts that appear to be unrelated actually are related. It reflects a rise of intersections. This type of story should not surprise us—we will see more like it. Lots more, everywhere.

It is certainly not the first time we have seen such a convergence among fields. Leonardo da Vinci is the illustrious standard-bearer of the Renaissance, when artists, scientists, and merchants stepped into the Intersection together and created one of Europe’s most creative explosions of art, culture, and science. But the centuries ...