David Skilling, chief executive of The New Zealand Institute, is quoted in a Time Magazine article about the state of New Zealand as a country. Skilling is a very interesting person for a whole number of reasons, and very bright. In the article in makes some very topical points about the impact of geography on globalisation (which is outside the focus of this blog), but he also makes an interesting point about the fringes :

Just like in biology,
the interesting stuff
happens on the edge.