Couple of interesting pieces that have got me thinking about creativity and ideas, and their relationship to new technology, appeared in Wired magazine over the last few days.
The first, The Problem with Brainstorming, is something of an anti-brainstorming rant, but also, intriguingly, shows how the anonymity of the internet can help remove some of those barriers....I like the idea of masks and self-mediation helping promote our ability to invent and 'ideate' (is that a word?) or to remove obstacles to us being able to do so....do idea authors on the GIB feel freer to range widely if they use a pseudonym than if their name were put to it? Is the internet key to the liberation?
The second, Brain Teasers, is related to something we've covered in the past: using games to train the brain. [See this piece on using video games to treat attention deficit disorder] Now Nintendo are bringing out a game aiming to do exactly that: train your brain with puzzles and IQ-like exercises....
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