Why Artists And Criminals Have A Leg Up On Predicting The Future

“I decided to take a page out of William Gibson’s playbook and go and find some artists and criminals and see what they were doing with new technologies. As I see it, artists and criminals have something in common: Neither is constrained by social conventions. In a later interview Gibson said, “Criminals are in effect entrepreneurs with the brakes off. They look at whatever the latest technology is and think, ‘What can I do with this?’ Artists are unconstrained by the limits of business and societal conventions.”