“The dynamist verge cherishes these things too. It care about intensive progress. And it perceives what stasists miss — the spectacular creativity and cumulative knowledge embedded in the things we take for granted: in the making of movies, the fabrics and shapes of our clothes, the subtle combination of fine cuisine, the emotional impact of religious rituals, the arrangements of supermarkets, and the catalogs of libraries; in beach volleyball and bread machines, pianos and Post-it notes; in the inexpensive, portable, and varied music that permeates contemporary life. We live in an enchanted world, a world suffused with intelligence, a world of our making. In such plenitude, too, lies an adventurous future” (Virginia Postrel, The Future and Its Enemies, pp. 217-218).
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