I had lunch with a bunch of SXSW people yesterday and one chap actually proposed to limit innovation/creativity. I suggested that we really needed to create middleware layers that made "mashups" easier for the average person to create. He responded that he didn't want think that was a good idea because then we would be drowned in ideas and how would we tell what was "good". To which I responded, so you want to reduce our options? I think the market will decide what is good or not. Look at Flickr! 1.5 million photos and a lot of dreck.. but quite a few really world-class pictures from people no one has heard of.
That's what I want to see.. make art and new ideas easy to synthesize/create and enjoy the results.
Posted by artandscience at March 13, 2006 09:20 AM