Innovation is not about working behind closed doors, but about open collaboration.
Not for the sake of our health, though it's often presented that way, but because it's an escape from the human anthill. It's an escape from our own competition, and our own dramas. And that's why ween joy looking at glaciers and oceans, and contemplating the Earth from outside its perimeters, etc. We like to feel in contact with something that is non-human, and that is so deeply important to us.
"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back."