I'm a guy who has spent my life in veneration of great ideas and the great thinkers who bring them to us. I'm in early middle age, a husband and a father and a seeker. I am a Boston-based writer/creative director who made the leap from traditional to digital marketing in 1999. I count myself incredibly lucky to have found a job that lets me kick around ideas all day with other creative people. Occasionally we even sell some stuff. We are living, in my view, in a time of change to a degree that is beyond our capacity to measure. If we can pull ourselves from our ruts and raise our eyes from our Blackberry's, we can appreciate this great age for the thrill ride that it is. So let's kick it, Big Think community. Let's see what's around the next curve...