Plenitude
Subtitle: Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff
By: by Rich Gold ; foreword by John Maeda.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9780262072892
Subjects: Creative ability; Creative thinking; Technological innovations; Material culture; Materialism; Consumption (Economics)
First sentence: "Between 1992 and 2002 I found myself giving hundreds of talks."
Description: "We live with a lot of stuff. The average kitchen, for example, is home to stuff galore, and every appliance, every utensil, every thing, is compound - composed of tens, hundreds, even thousands of other things. Although each piece of stuff satisfies some desire, it also creates the need for even more stuff: cereal demands a spoon; a television demands a remote. Rich Gold calls this dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff "the Plenitude." And in this book - at once cartoon treatise, autobiographical reflection, and practical essay in moral philosophy - he tells us how to understand and live with it."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

I wrote a blog post about this book at http://www.cookinrelaxin.com/2009/09/plenitude-and-innovation.html
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