South Africa, Nov. 5 -- I return to that story often because it captures something I have come to understand more clearly over time: the moments that reshape us tend to happen where a creative spark meets a technological enabler. A flyer. A modem. A connection. That is how transformation often begins, not with certainty, but with curiosity and the tools that help us follow it.

A divide we built in our own minds

Somewhere along the way, we taught ourselves to think of creativity and technology as separate disciplines belonging to separate people in separate rooms. Creatives on one side. Technologists on the other. Different languages, different assumptions, different ways of measuring value.

Part of the problem is that many creative bus...