How has Mind Mapping evolved in the last decade or so?
Buzan: Up until the beginning of the 21st Century, Mind Mapping was primarily a hand-to-paper thinking tool. Interestingly, even at the end of the 20th Century, the world’s best computer brains were not capable, neither were their computers, of producing the organic and beautifully interconnected nature of real human thought. This decade has seen the beginning of the first real marriage between the Electronic and Carbon brain. We are about to witness the explosion in creativity, innovation and all other forms of thought when these two massive forms of intelligence merge. The effects will be synergetic and explosive, and will create a Paradigm Shift in the development and manifestation of the infinite power of human thought. Frey: How would you characterize the level of acceptance of Mind Maps in the worlds of business and education? Buzan: Mind Mapping, which I developed in the 1960’s, has had equal acceptance in the worlds of business and education. In business it has been used partic
