Essay on "is internet killing childs creativity"
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The internet hasn’t killed creativity, and web design isn’t dead. But generic solutions are. And the robots really are coming. There are so many tools, there are so many frameworks. There’s SquareSpace. There’s the Grid. And others will follow.
Soon, it will be virtually free to create a nice looking website. There will be super sexy templates. There will be themes. There will be payment plans and production lines. If it can be done with an algorithm, it will. Maybe it even should.
But remember this: machines have no imagination. Robots work to a specific set of rules. They follow the recipe. They can’t create something that’s original and meaningful. They have no imagination. If we want to survive the Matrix (my robotic dystopian metaphor of choice), we need to maintain ours.
So we’re left with a choice. We can take the blue pill: we carry on as we are. We perfect the recipe. We choose the familiar. And eventually we hand our jobs over to robots.
Or we take the red pill: we go beyond the obvious and enter Wonderland. We fail. We fail again. And in the process, we offer what the machines can’t: memorable, original and creative experiences.
Soon, it will be virtually free to create a nice looking website. There will be super sexy templates. There will be themes. There will be payment plans and production lines. If it can be done with an algorithm, it will. Maybe it even should.
But remember this: machines have no imagination. Robots work to a specific set of rules. They follow the recipe. They can’t create something that’s original and meaningful. They have no imagination. If we want to survive the Matrix (my robotic dystopian metaphor of choice), we need to maintain ours.
So we’re left with a choice. We can take the blue pill: we carry on as we are. We perfect the recipe. We choose the familiar. And eventually we hand our jobs over to robots.
Or we take the red pill: we go beyond the obvious and enter Wonderland. We fail. We fail again. And in the process, we offer what the machines can’t: memorable, original and creative experiences.
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