What if?

What if?

What if the answer keys to our educational exams were questions? With a few blank spaces for even better questions?

What if, instead of “answers”, google searches turned up hits of even more questions?

Searcher:

• Why is the sky blue?

​Google:

• Why are you asking why the sky is blue?
  
• Why is it called the sky?
  
• Why does the word blue have several different meanings?

What if we had Q&Q periods instead of Q&A?

What if Siri actually started asking us questions instead of the opposite?

I asked Siri a few questions. Wasn't happy with her responses - or lack of questions.

​What if? - These questions tend to have an expansive effect. They allow us to think without limits.​

Curiosity is the foreplay of discovery.
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- Chip Conley

Discoveries are not the fruit of outstanding talent, but rather of common sense enhanced and strengthened by technical education and a habit of thinking about scientific problems.

- Santiago Ramon y Cajal

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. However, you can tall whether a man is wise by his questions.

- Naguib Mahfouz

On average, we ask 40,000 questions between the ages 2 and 5 and steadily decline in our question-asking thereafter.

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Einstein said,

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

What if we returned to asking more questions?
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