Skeptic
October 2nd, 2006[ General ]
I’m often accused of being a skeptic or a pessimist when it comes to technology. I like to clarify by saying that I’m technology agnostic. I don’t care if it’s google, microsoft, microogle, or goosoft. It’s technology, which I rarely have an emotional connection to. I like to think I subscribe to the following:
“Most claims of originality are testimony to ignorance and most claims of magic are testimony to hubris”
It does, of course, conflict slightly with the Gregory Benford quote Rob has at the top of his site. Curious to chat with him about it.
October 2nd, 2006 at 5:53 pm
There is no such thing as originality, thank god. How ridiculously difficult to create from a blank slate. How wonderful that we can build on what has become before. What a nightmare for intellectual property lawyers. Or, what a boon for them, and a nightmare for the rest of us.
I’m more optimistic about the future than I am about technology, but I’m still dazzled by great leaps in creativity. Not perhaps because of any claim they make to originality, but because of the effort that’s often involved to make any creative endeavour see the light of day.