I’m working on a project in humanities called “Cray Cray Yay Yay 🤪” the driving question is: “Why does it take a crazy person to change the world?”. Heres my answer to that question

The reason it takes a crazy person to change the world is that only a crazy person would ever be so bold enough to come up with revolutionary concepts. One of the most popular being Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)

The idea of Sci-fi, writing a story about somewhere that is so far from our reality, is pretty crazy, you get to make the rules, and you get to choose the tech, and it’s literally like playing god. The reason this changes the world is simple, sci-fi is pretty damn popular. You have the greats like the Terminator, Star Wars, Back to the Future, and Ghost Busters! all very popular and influential franchises, and are still around to this day! But the future doesn’t need to be hidden behind a screen 

The space needle is what put Seattle on the map, the reason it’s so crazy is that the engineers and construction teams of Seattle proved to the world that, when you put your mind to it, you can bring a city into the next century, this changes the world because it demonstrates that, even in the ’60s, the future is just one innovation away. But the future isn’t just restrained to tech and infrastructure.

The Climate Pledge Arena is an almost 100% carbon-neutral arena and the home of the Seattle Kraken and Storm, this changes the world because it proves how we can surely end global warming by the end of 2050. But they’re not the only ones making the world a better place

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a museum to educate about women’s inequality and what the Gates have done to help impoverished areas of the world, this changes the world because it’s almost unheard of for a wealthy man to use his wealth to help others. But if there is one thing that screams wealthy business, it’s planes.

The Museum of Flight is the first thing you see when you land at King County International Airport, it has many planes on display, from the earliest hot air balloons to the most advanced fighter jets! In the 1900s, the idea of flight was speculated to only be possible in a millennium… then the Wright brothers flew just 8 months later! this changes the world because planes are used to transport both freight and passengers, without planes, Amazon might not exist!

My overall point here can be summarized in a single sentence: “The human imagination, is wild”. And when you put the imagination to work, the things you can do the ways you can change the status quo, are numerous!