Tommorrow I address the TED Conference which, I am told, brings together the top thinkers in the area of electronics, information, technology etc.
Concepts are the 'genes' of ideas.
There was a time when information was the bottleneck. We can get all the information we need. The new bottleneck is 'thinking' and creative thinking in particular. The analysis of information does not yield new ideas because the brain can only see what it is prepared to see - so you have to be create the idea first as a possibility. Information and technology can support the value concepts we design - but you have to design them first.