Throughout the modern study of creativity it has been argued that “creativity doesn’t happen in a vacuum”. With that said–it could be argued that increased engagement with information (which is more than simply having access to information – i.e. having a book on a bookshelf vs. reading that book) positively correlates to increased creative capacity. In her 2009 presentation at TED: Ideas Worth Sharing, Pattie Maes (of the MIT Media Lab) demonstrates a device (primarily developed by Pranav Mistry) that could dramatically increase such engagement to information in a truly ubiquitous way.

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