The other day, Potentiality correspondent Theodora Lamb shared an amazing video by Steven Johnson on Facebook. I’ve re-posted it below.

The creatively whiteboardy nature of the piece is reason enough to like it – a lot. And then there’s the message, which is truly inspiring. I recommend checking out his TED Talk for the full effect. Humbly, I will say that the decentralized, typically-Gen-Y-led globally connected webs of social networks present one of the only hopes for a happy and healthy future. So, well done, seemingly overwhelmed-by-multitasking-and-pretty-much-uninterested-young-people!

One of our mottoes on this site is to “collect ideas from everywhere and use them to build community.” So you can understand why we love this message, as what is this online magazine if it’s not a place for many ideas to bump into each other – or, as Johnson says, “have sex with each other” – and, over time, turn into something beautiful.

“Chance favours the connected mind.” Amazing. And I think this is a lesson for all of our readers to do two things: first, tell 10 people about the Potentiality Community Stories; second, join our forum for discussion. And, hey, if you find a better twenty-first-century-salon/coffee-house than ours – for example, maybe you have a red head and want to collaborate with other ailing gingers – be a part of that discussion, too. Because ideas are only as great as the networks that they’re in. So build yours big today!

Oh, and if you plan to bump-ideas with Kurt Heinrich, just be patient. He will start out by talking a lot about Terminators (how to become one, how to stop them, what their strengths and weaknesses are, if they’re around today, right now, etc.). But if you hang in there and get through the ridiculousness, well, it typically turns into gold.

– JCH