Creativity is an amazing thing and innovation even more so. IMHO Innovation is the driving force behind the blinkenlights telnet as opposed to creativity. The guy "(a "whacked out geek called Sten)" according to the blinkenlights site /) obviously had plenty of innovation in his soul (not to mention a hell of a lot of patience) to be able to put telnet to this wonderful use.
Innovation drives technology to the brink and creativity takes technologists to their next new invention. Sten took a well known and well loved movie and used technology to show it in a new light. He used the technology to the brink.
When innovation is stifled by the limits of technology there is a need for someone who is creative to develop new technology. This cycle is never ending and sometimes quite rapid.
The explosion of WEB2.0 is evidence of this as is the current discussion of the semantic web (web3.0). The innovators have taken the technology and beat it to within an inch of its life and soon they will need to invent new tools to embrace this growing need.
Am I thinking this too deep?
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