the innovator has always been closely associated with the dreamer. it's never been a surprise.

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the innovator has roamed the earth since the first humans put together crude slingshots and learned that friction can generate enough heat to spark a flame, and he'll be around until the very last one of them is gone.

in the so-called anthropocene, the innovator is everywhere. he's never been a tinkerer himself, but rather a harbringer of change, and so watches over the economists who call for carbon pricing and emission allowances and market-based mechanisms, or the statisticians that run math models and computer simulations detailing the rise of climate-based threats. he trails behind engineers and scientists designing photovoltaics and hydraulic turbines that run purely on the force of falling water; powered, essentially, by gravity. his charges dream, too, and they play. they create spiraling steel trees with flowers and butterflies blooming out of every crack and crevice, or indoor forests made of nothing but projected light, a billion photons flickering along the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum; glowing splashes of color in a world being overtaken by stainless steel and skyscrapers.