I watched the Larry Lessig’s TED talk “Laws That Choke Creativity” and found it is very interesting to explore the idea of remixing or content stealing. I believe he makes a great point that our society may not move forward if creativity is choked or killed. In his words, today’s younger generation has been labeled as “pirates”, but It is almost impossible not use someone else’s work as a reference point when endless amounts of resources at your fingers. The young generation uses the technology to embrace their creativity. For instance, today’s many styles of music are created in which technology plays a huge role in the creation process. Also, new advances may not be happen on the medicine if scientists do not think outside of the box. So I believe it is still can be called creativity if someone remix or sampling an artist’s work to compose something completely different by himself. Yet, he also mentioned that younger generations are obsessed with technology as an “age of prohibition”. Do you think it is good or bad that younger generations base so much of their lives around technology?
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I highly agree with what you pointed out by the TED talk. I think that the law should change according to the changing reality rather than sticking to the past generation’s thought and being outdated. About today’s teenagers being attached to technology, I think that there are both good and bad sides to it, just like any other subject. It is always best to find the middle point where you can balance them, however that is difficult and by those biases and attachments the world changes as time goes by.
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Absolutely. It is difficult to find the middle point where we can balance the influences of technology, but I believe our generation has new and special technique to share with the world, especially for creation based on the technology. Like the previous unit that playing video games can help us to get some skills to survive in the real world. Surfing the internet can benefit people to know more current news or some information what they want to know more efficient and instant. In terms of music, technology can make it easier for the creators to collect some parts of songs and make them into a sampling or remixing version. So I believe our generation makes a new definition of creativity based on technology, which bring us more benefits than disadvantages. And I think we do not need to find a middle point to balance them, and should accept the changes if the trendy is good for us.