So in my view, some creative thinking needs to come in here to find ways to help companies in this situation to stay ahead in the game, but at the same time, to remain technologically competitive.
As lives are affected by any number of looming challenges — climate crisis, automation in the workplace — humans are going to need creative thinking more than ever.
They will be the ones who will have to autonomously carry out creative thinking, problem solving and decision making, with minimal assistance or at best remote assistance from teams back on Earth.
In a paper published last year, three academics at the University of Ottawa found that people who strove for excellence did better on tests of creative thinking than people who sought perfection.