Americans in general still have trouble thinking of a gypsy as a member of an ethnic group, rather than a stock character in a film set in Transylvania.
Only that future generations will have an unprecedented amount of firsthand data (in 140-character bites) about what people from every corner of the world were doing, thinking and feeling at every moment starting four years ago.
If we need a new character and decide we need a new project, I just go home and do some thinking, some doodling with a pencil and paper until an idea comes to me.
One possibility is that mathematical expertise, a character trait possessed by many investors and typically seen as a desirable feature for that vocation, promotes linear thinking.