Technology Transforming Creativity

Creativity is the most important part of human function. Without it, Steve Jobs would have never had the vision to create Apple technologies. Without it Van Gogh may have never painted Starry Night. Without it, our favorite movies and music may not even exist. So when Larry Lessig states that laws are choking creativity, a slight panic is understandable. If laws take away, or limit our creativity, what do humans have left? Many don't realize it, but humanity would become little more than a shell of it's former self without creativity.
During his "TED Talk" Lessig provides an incredible explanation, and argument. His passion and extensive research are on display in this video. He starts with the earlier beginnings of technology, and how a man by the name of John Philips Susa saw the "talking machines" as "infernal machines" that would "ruin the artistic development of music in this country." This is interesting because the idea that technology is ruining the younger generations is not uncommon. However, it is easy for someone to look at something new and unknown and say "It is not good. It is dangerous. It will ruin the current state of the world." It is hard for someone to look at that same new, unknown thing and say "This is an opportunity. What comes out of it may be bad, but it may also be fantastic." Lessig goes right ahead and informs the audience on why the latter is true and the former is a close-minded way of thinking. He gives examples of technology producing a new form of creativity. People now combine music and video and things that have already be created and they reimagine them into their own form of creativity. Philips was wrong; technology did not erase creativity, it transformed it.
The world needs creativity. It provides hope, and supports imagination. Creativity is an escape from the real world. Humans have been creating and imaging for just about as long as they have existed, and now that technology has grown and improved we can expand even further on our creative abilities. Technology should be embraced as a new form of creativity.