Tuesday, 14 July 2009

Technologically Empowered Capability

The post on Simulated Creativity brought some ground for how tech comes to empower users to let them do work with less effort and energy, time, organisation and on to art and creativity. Creativity adds a lot of value to the work and artifacts and creates products of higher market value for the peak of the value pyramid.
One essential part of this technology is computing and the capability to use computers, design them and design and model the software for them also uses creativity. It is also a highly valued "art". Software creation is albeit much more difficult to model than creating a model for composition of specific style and feel. We could not create automata to design perfect code for any imaginable design spec.

There are two quantities I have been vague about and I think they should get more elaboration.
A lot of value from creativity
Perhaps I should compare different creative vocations with how much value do they create per person.

Difficulty of modelling and automating how software is created

Anyone who has tried to teach excellence in programming might have come across this problem.

Simulated Creativity

To a certain extent it is possible to simulate how the composition of melody or symphony is created based on some rules. This could be enhanced perhaps with first creating a simulation of a psyche with generated emotional responses and memories of relationships, places, and ambience they create and then using that to create musical pieces. Styles and other stuff can be added, what would become very difficult in this would be originality in forming style or developing new generes of music. (This bares semblance to the way software writers need to adapt new ways to their work, testing, uml, documentation, refactoring)

Other arts could have something like this too.

Will this one day give us applications on our portable devices that gives us access to near expert level of artisan skill at the click of a button? Compare with style plugins for some paint programs(impressionist, cubist photos).

Tuesday, 7 July 2009

Innovationment

an act of creating innovation creates innovative products when these products start to affect the world as they become everpresent and interact with people and the world in general they create additional phenomena and the world might be said to experience innovationment. just one of the words i came up with as philosophy does invent new words.