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If I had a book of art when I was a kid I wouldn't have learned to paint. If I lived near a 5 star restaurant I would never have learned to cook. If I could w
by replicatorblog 17y ago
If I had a book of art when I was a kid I wouldn't have learned to paint.
If I lived near a 5 star restaurant I would never have learned to cook.
If I could watch professional soccer I wouldn't learn to play.
There are dozens of closed systems, far harder to crack than the app store that people bulldoze through because they love them
Well made products strike chords with people and excite them to the point where they have to make something as nice, or better. If anything I think this will hasten the transition from passive TV watching to interactivity which will spur more hacking.
- mcherm 17y agoLet's re-phrase those to keep the analogy a little more accurate: If I hadn't been able to scribble in the margins of my art books, I never would have learned to draw. If all my meals had come pre-packaged and pre-approved by the food board with raw ingredients prohibited, then I would never have learned to cook. If I could watch professional soccer but was prohibited from playing myself except on a regulation field (none of which were near my house) then I wouldn't have learned to play. The existence of closed systems doesn't harm learning. But if the tools we give people are closed systems rather than open ones, that DOES harm learning... folks will learn to work with tools others build but will NOT learn to build it themselves. Which works great for becoming better consumers, but perhaps isn't the best way to create a new generation of inventors and innovators.