there are no original thoughts. they have already been thought of. every idea that has ever popped into your unoriginal head has also popped into several other heads only much earlier. despite the fact that someone had to have been the first head that the thought popped into, they are still unoriginal. there can be no new thoughts. whoever thought of that was such an unoriginal quitter. "i'm going to think of something that no one else has ever thought of ...eh, can't be done. there are no original thoughts. nailed it." then straight into a nap, and sadly that pathetic thought - that there are no original thoughts - has been accepted and quoted as if it were a law. but aren't thoughts predicated by innovation? did someone in the 14th century really have some thoughts about nanotechnology? maybe philosophical thoughts have all been exhausted as far as how we got here and why, but the philosophies of where we might be going can never be pinned down hundreds of years before they are set in motion. new technologies are going to be put in play that will give millions of minds new ideas of the potential future. are they unoriginal because they are all the same? are we subconsciously told what to think? does everyone who hears about nanorobots living in your body inspecting your cells like beat cops immediately think of inner-space? probably. but what if the nanobots rebel and start communities in your spare kidney, develop the technology to build a particle accelerator in your spleen and create black holes that suck your body into anti-matter from the inside? that has been thought of? what if they all wear powder wigs and fake robot mustaches?