ISSUE TOPICS

1. It is primarily through formal education that a culture tries to perpetuate the ideas it favors and discredit the ideas it fears
2. In any field of inquiry, the beginner is more likely than the expert to make important discoveries
3. Technologies not only influence but actually determine social customs and ethics
4. It is always an individual who is the impetus for innovation; the details may be worked out by a team, but true innovation results from the enterprise and unique perception of an individual