A. Let’s start with a man who wondered
what would happen if two people stretched a wire between two rooms and
connected it to a vibrating mechanism, then spoke into the device on one end
and listened to it on the other. As a result, we have the first telephone.
A writer once imagined what
would happen if a vengeful ship captain set out to find and kill the giant
white whale that had taken off his leg, and we got the classic novel Moby Dick.
Two guys sat down with guitars one
day and wondered, “What if we wrote a song that said ‘she loves you yeah yeah
yeah,’” and that gave the Beatles their first big hit.
And an artist once looked at
the woman he was painting and wondered what would happen if, instead of a smile,
he gave her a smirk, and that gave us one of the world’s most famous works of
art—the Mona Lisa.
This is what happens when
creative people asked themselves “what if?” and use their imaginations to
answer the question.
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