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It's certainly something to think about, Michael.
But I don't think it can make us more creative. Technology is a fancy word for "tool". And any tool will allow a person to do something they intended to do in the first place. If I want to nail something, than a hammer will do. Using it properly allows me to hammer it quickly, more elegantly than anything else. If I don't have a hammer, then I'll need to be creative and use something else--perhaps a shoe or rock. This simple example brings up the question of creativity. How do I accomplish something without the proper tools? How does my mind work in solving the problem with the nail? To me, finding a creative solution is to dive into a fun-filled world where you are allowed to "play" and where fear doesn't exist. A voice in the back of the mind doesn't say, "you shouldn't do that! or You couldn't do that!"
I think if any tool allows us to "play", then we can interact with it creatively without fear. Imagine this world without fear and you would see an explosion in artistic creativity unbound!
I have to say technology gives us both. Along with all the bells and whistles of technology, the biggest assest being interaction of creativity. You might say people of been interacting before computers and the cyberspace. And you are right.
My experience is people seem to open up more with a mouse in their hand. The creation is no longer between you and I, but us against the machine. The machine affords us "the sky is the limited", anything is possible. We are no longer limited by our physical bodies. No longer does a tool have to be tangible. A tool can even be temporal. The machine pushes the envelope. The machine challenges us to the darkest realms of our inner mind and we go there without fear.
So technology unlocks our creativity and at the sametime we become more creative. Could we have become as creative without technology? Probably not because there would be no need too. Technology itself is human creativity.
Most defiantly it has made a huge impact on the creativity. Look at all the wonderful opportunities that you would have never had a chance to consume. For me in so many ways it has inspired me to do something that fills my passion and that is write and make web pages. I know I would have never tried this on my own. Technology has given me the chance to discover and awaken it once more.
great blog. im a poet too. just popped in to say hi.
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These are all cogent points...you'll recall that my original post used the term'make us' in quotation marks, for I havepondered this question, but never reached a conclusion....The point George made about technology being a 'tool' (to be used appropriately for the appropriate aim) is one that I hae made to others in similar discussion...perhaps, being a more 'exact' and 'omni-inter-accommodative' tool [computer, hardware/software), it enables us to do more creatively--within the cyber space medium--than any previous techno form.
Ladysunshine notes that the internet/computer design technology has inspired her to do things she would not have otherwise done.....and, in my own life since 1997 (the year I 'discovered' the internet/WWW), my writing has increased 10 fold at least, and I now have more creative projects (a CD, two websites, etc) going simultaneously that at any point in my life....I also hope to have a DVD out of my video poetry (alas, George is WAY ahead of most of us in this regard :-))...I have laways been a creative type (like all of you)...but it seems to me that in the past, things always took MUCH longer to execute/complete and then of course, promote/publicize (if at all) or get seen....the 'acceleration' (another Bucky concept) of techno change has tapped into my creative potential--certainly my productivity....so, am I more creative now than before...probably not (viewed from the 'inside', from my internal awareness of my Self), but from the outside, from the viewpoint of others, they would unavoidably notice the explosion of my creative output since 1997...
...of course, the WWW also permits us to publish/promote ourselves--GLOBALLY--unlike ANY thing before it...computer technology would seem to be the great 'equalizer' of the modern error.....the little guy/gal can now by pass the traditional, hierarchical power structures, and communicate his/her ideas to a (potentially) mass audience.....of course, the proliferation of websites means that there is more an more competition for viewership, and so, monied interests manage to crawl back into the game and (often) dominate.....but I am personally quite happy with finding a 'niche' audience for my work, and let 'word of mouth' or 'word of email' (or how about 'logoblogia' :-)) bring in a larger audience....
...Rollin' Thunder, is one such means....and so i thank Rg for creating this unique space for us to contribute to.........Michael R.
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