Creativity in the age of Google
Before Google and Metacrawler and Excite and Hotbot and all the other tools we evolved to troll through centuries of human history and ideas, you could have an idea, and wonder, only imagine, if maybe it’s too good an idea, if someone somewhere has already thought of it and done it. Now you don’t have to wonder. You can search, and know immediately that not only has your idea been done, it’s been done a hundred ways and a thousand times. Before Google, we could only wonder how big the world and human history really is. Now we know.
Added on Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 11:49 am in Commentary. Permalink
Brief
I'm John Covey, John C. Covey to be exact. I'm a programmer with a small shop in the United States, but I used to tell people I was a web designer, which I still think would be a sweet life, except for the part about struggling to pay bills.