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How scenius grows

Amplifying on this later in Wired magazine, Kevin Kelly suggests that a fertile scenius emerges from at least some of the following conditions:

• Mutual appreciation. Risky moves are applauded by the group, subtlety is appreciated, and friendly competition goads the shy. Scenius as the best kind of peer pressure.

• Rapid exchange of tools and techniques. As something is invented, it is flaunted, then shared. Ideas flow quickly because they are flowing inside a common language and sensibility.

• Success is contagious. When a record is broken, a hit happens, or breakthrough erupts, the success is claimed by the entire scene. This empowers the scene to further success.

• Local tolerance for the new. The local “outside” does not push back too hard against the transgressions of the scene. Renegades and mavericks are protected by this buffer zone.

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