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Turn Your Business Into The Imagination Machine PHOTO: Diz Play How can businesses harness the collective imagination of their workforce at a time when innovation is at a premium? That is the central question of Martin Reeves and Jack Fullers forthcoming book, "The Imagination Machine." Are there methods to increase both the predictability and the frequency of bursts of imagination? Businesses tasked with innovating — and that means all businesses — struggle with questions like these...

Ed Smith, computer and video games pioneer, with his Imagination Machine in 1981 Jerry Lawson led the invention of cartridges, Ed Smith made a hybrid console/PC, and designer Muriel Tramis won France’s highest honour for bringing history into play. How many more names are forgotten? Wed 5 May 2021 04.30 EDT Last modified on Tue 11 May 2021 09.02 EDT In the 1970s, in the fledgling days of the video games industry, an engineer named Gerald “Jerry” Lawson designed one of the earlies...

Dr. Mark Dean (Photo: University of Tennessee) Its no secret that success for African Americans in tech has not come easily. As part of a cultural group that has been on the receiving end of discrimination, disenfranchisement, and blatant terror extending back hundreds of years, Black engineers and tech executives often feel like they must perform at twice the level just to break even with their non-minority counterparts. Despite those immense challenges, a handful of Black professionals in th...