Networked knowledge

     "The idea that in order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine and recombine these pieces and build new castles" (Popova 1).


     I like this because I think it is basicaly saying that in order for us to have thoughts and ideas, we have to combine every experiance and observation we have had so far in our lives. That what we think and create is just a combination of what we have taken in throughout our life. We take everything we have seen others do, and nature do, and combine it to make our own creations and ideas.
      This is a lot like what Austin Kleon was saying in the video we watched in "How to steal like an artist". That artists must steal others ideas in a way and change and transform them to make them their own. I think he even said, actually, that our thoughts and ideas are a combination of what we have taken in throughout our life.