'On the edges of society people are experimenting with new ways of working and living together.' Agree. There is also a lot of this going on in organisations and also by people (who work for those organisations) in their spare time. A couple of years ago I attended a workshop on setting up your own business. Out of a group of about eight older men it turned out that all of them had a passion outside of work and some had already started making money from that passion. We are also inventive beings and the problem we have is surfacing and sharing the inventive things we do. And that includes in L&D.