Hey Folks, after a long time without publishing anything here I am again. Welcome to my new and innovative blog! talking about innovation, just check out the video and comment about this I have posted after. Hope you enjoy and comment!
Based on the Video posted above I would like to express here some of my thoughts about the subjects creativity and the Internet.
There is already sometime that I have been thinking how creativity has contributed to the connected world we are living in today. The Internet created as a simple means of communication and data transfer has increasingly been turned into something much more powerful than that. Nowadays, through the Internet it is possible not only to acquire some arguable ‘Knowledge’, but also to communicate and exchange some ideas, experiences and some self or acquired knowledge. On the other hand, more than all of this, the Internet is also used as a tool for creation: would this be true?
According to the video good ideas take sometimes to evolve, what can be years of thinking with no idea. In the same way that this called ‘slow hunch’, the Internet began and gradually developed until the moment we are today, attracting massive audiences. It is acceptable that Tim Berners Lee could not necessarily be a genius, but the Internet was certainly a good idea, taking the fact that because of it we can get precious information quickly, not to mention that it reaches everybody. The idea of the ‘Incubation’ time mentioned by Steve Johnson in the video, generating one hunch that collides with another hunch, nowadays seems to instead of colliding and creating a breakthrough is going in another direction, or simply scrambling to the ground.
The reason for this could be explained by the fact that instead of leading to a bigger centre of good ideas, the Internet seems to have turned into something common, with no much creativity, ascending to a level of boredom and span in the form of emails, scraps, twits, messages, etc. What impresses is the lack of creativity of certain people that only copy and past a recognised text, being then considered as plagiarists. Or even more than that share information that will not change the life of anyone, such as twitting “I have just came back from university” or “I am going to work”. Let’s be reasonable and fair agreeing that the Internet should be used in a better when than this.
It is in this moment when Steve comments on Innovation, pointing the question in which I would like to refer to: “What the Internet is doing to our brains?” When answering this question I shall consider the term innovation as renovation, where ideas originally generated in the Internet can be taken in a creative way. What I mean by this is: do not copy and paste, do not frame our routines, do not limit yourself to a quick chat. I wish that we can reinvent, renew and only in that way innovate. The interchange of knowledge in this moment is fundamental. The positive use of the Internet to post acquired and digested knowledge, not allowing the temptation to copy, what can minimize our creative brains.
An example of how this could be done relies in our personal intention. When we write a blog or twit something, we should think in how we can innovate, think in what sort of different and attractive things we can write about. Publish intelligent videos about an idea we had, or about something we have just learnt, like what the actual vlogs are doing today, is a good example of a change of mentality and attitude. I believe in the same way as showed in the video above, we should move with the world and leave behind the era of the books or even radio, the only sources of getting knowledge in the past. We should follow our current connected world and keep ourselves connected in a way to generate new ideas, making use of the actual available media, such as the Internet in this case analysed here.
In conclusion, I should say that there is no need to be a genius like Albert Einstein was one day, but it is needed to be connected and innovative. The capacity to reinvent ourselves relies within us. What we should not allow is to become alienated and distracted with our daily routine as mentioned in the video. It is urged to always think in how to innovate, renew and reinvent a present, move from the past to be able to build an innovative and intelligent future. A connected future in the present, being always tuned in a surrounding of great newness, and only then collide our hunch with another hunch to form great good ideas.
Well... that is it for today, hope you really enjoyed in a level that you can leave your comments bellow now. Discussion for this topic is now open, see you next time. Take care!
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