@bug so, there is a lecturer in The Machine Stops. Read what he said: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/tenth_hand . Note the focus on “remixing” ideas.

In The Glass Bead Game the Castalia society is mostly dedicated to studying old books, “remixing” and rethinking in the Game, and never producing anything conceptually new. They only find connections between existing things, however detached they may seem.

I found these two approaches eerily similar.