Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell talks about engineering hits and what every business can learn from spaghetti sauce.
What if you built a machine to predict hit movies?
From THE FORMULA by MALCOLM GLADWELL
The Accidental Guru From FastCompany.Com and The Gladwell Effect
Somewhat related to Gladwell's thinking is Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Fooled by Randomness. Here is Gladwell's review - How Nassim Taleb turned the inevitability of disaster into an investment strategy.
The World Question Center 2005 asked, "What Do You Believe Is True Even Though You Cannot Prove It?"
See also Edge Foundation and Third Culture Intellectuals, one of which is certainly Stewart Brand whose latest endeavor is The Clock of the Long Now and Stewart Brand Meets The Cybernetic Counterculture