# Vittorio Loreto: Need a new idea? Start at the edge of what is known

"Where do great ideas come from?" Starting with this question in mind, Vittorio Loreto takes us on a journey to explore a possible mathematical scheme that explains the birth of the new. Learn more about the "adjacent possible" — the crossroads of what's actual and what's possible — and how studying the math that drives it could explain how we create new ideas.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2017
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/VittorioLoreto_2017S)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/VittorioLoreto_2017S?play=1)