has mankind lost its originality?

[mstng86]

I don't see the current technology of cell phones and hand-held devices as "breakthroughs", is it is the same technology that we have had for 20 years, just smaller and faster. There isn't anything monumentally different about it. Just my opinion though, yours may be different. This whole thread is about opinions anyways.

Stevo

I think the advancement and wide spread use of touch screens has been pretty amazing. I don't think anyone would have thought we could completely do away with books and handle all our day to day computer type tasks via a handheld touch screen.

Star Trek was a few hundred years off.

[stevo]

Few breakthroughs? Just take a look at what you can do with a cell phone and tell me innovation and creativity and originality are going away.

Rehashing other people's stuff in media? Well, they're in the business of entertaining people. If something new and creative flops, it costs them money.

I don't see the current technology of cell phones and hand-held devices as "breakthroughs", is it is the same technology that we have had for 20 years, just smaller and faster. There isn't anything monumentally different about it. Just my opinion though, yours may be different. This whole thread is about opinions anyways.

Stevo

[Nash B.]

so this thread is not about mick foley?

god bless.

Well played, sir.

[ELVIS]

so this thread is not about mick foley?

god bless.

[Nash B.]

I'll partially agree with that, but care to address the validity of the rest of my post?

Stevo

Few breakthroughs? Just take a look at what you can do with a cell phone and tell me innovation and creativity and originality are going away.

Rehashing other people's stuff in media? Well, they're in the business of entertaining people. If something new and creative flops, it costs them money.

[stevo]

Computers don't give people ideas. They help people implement them.

I'll partially agree with that, but care to address the validity of the rest of my post?

Stevo

[mstng86]

But some creative, original guy or group of guys (maybe a woman or two) had to first enable it and then teach it how to think creatively and originally.

He blew himself up trying to get that arm.

[Nash B.]

I agree with the technology point of view, but remember most of that is created with complex computers and simulation and built of the ideas of previous people. Not many completely new ideas from a single person. It seems there have been few "breakthroughs" lately, just news twists on old technology

Stevo

Computers don't give people ideas. They help people implement them.

You obviously haven't heard about a little thing called, Skynet.

But some creative, original guy or group of guys (maybe a woman or two) had to first enable it and then teach it how to think creatively and originally.

[stevo]

You obviously haven't heard about a little thing called, Skynet.

Get out of my head, I was about to post that.

Stevo

[mstng86]

And computers doing complex simulation has nothing to do with creativity. It actually does the opposite. It takes the non creative portion out of design. Computers can only repeat what has already been done or what it learned from the programmers. you still need a human for new designs.

You obviously haven't heard about a little thing called, Skynet.

[Ruffdaddy]

And computers doing complex simulation has nothing to do with creativity. It actually does the opposite. It takes the non creative portion out of design. Computers can only repeat what has already been done or what it learned from the programmers. you still need a human for new designs.

[Ruffdaddy]

I think you just aren't exposed to the correct stuff. Nearly every idea is based on improving something else...what exactly is new to you then? Even technology wise...

[Binky]

“We are nothing but echoes. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own, we are but a compost heap made up of the decayed heredities, moral and physical.” (Mark Twain)

"It has all been done before; there is nothing new under the sun." (Ecclesiasties 1:9)

Not a new or original topic

Innovation andchange occurs explosively or over a long period of time - it's not a sustained speed process that is easily measured and accounted for.

[stevo]

I agree with the technology point of view, but remember most of that is created with complex computers and simulation and built of the ideas of previous people. Not many completely new ideas from a single person. It seems there have been few "breakthroughs" lately, just news twists on old technology

I think I am describing a lack in creativity when it comes to ideas that are subjective. If we have ideas that take ques from retro trends that were great, it is still just a new twist on someone else's idea, and still not original.

Stevo

[Nash B.]

The quick answer is No, of course not.

The reason you're asking is because you are only looking at mass media, which is formulaic by design. There is not a lot of reward for the risk of seeking out new talent and new paradigms. People are sheeple and want to be fed the same grain over and over. For example, 92.5 KZPS.

But there's really no shame in revisiting the good trends. We've been force fed electronic music for 35 years now.

Haha, at the risk of being ironic, that's pretty much what I was going to say. Your problem is looking at those areas as the only outlet for creativity. They're all in it to make money, and the same old money-making plot or beat with their twist will make money.

You want creativity and new ideas? Look at today's technology.