What Will The 'New Radio' Sound Like

Sir Ken Robinson, a world-renowned creativity expert, tells the story of a six-year-old girl in her first day at school.

It's "free time" so the little girl begins to draw. Her teacher comes up beside her and asks her what she's drawing.

"I'm drawing a picture of God," the little girl replies.

"But no one knows what God looks like," the teacher tells her.

"Well, they will in a minute," the girl says.

Children have no fear of being wrong. It's more true now than ever that as an industry, as a society, we have stigmatized failure. We are all taught to avoid mistakes. We have learned the hard way to be afraid to be wrong.

We need to encourage creativity, and that entails not punishing mistakes. We need to reward those willing to risk failure. Hopefully, someone somewhere is creating the new radio that will be as ubiquitous as the old, transmitted kind has been during our careers.

No one knows what that will sound like, what that will be like.

But we will soon...