The Case for Creativity
Return to Politics and Culture
humanITy Paper
Date: 01/05/2006
Preface
We live in an information age. We work, shop, socialise, book holidays and meet lovers by digital means. Huge numbers of people create stuff!
What makes some people creative, but others not, and why? We just don’t know. In theory we all ought to be able to create, but there’s a great and growing divide between those who can and those who can’t!
There is enormous scope and opportunity for more or less everybody to be creative, but current technology either deliberately or by default excludes at least half the population of rich countries and more or less all the population of poorer ones. In rich countries the underprivileged, less technologically competent, very old, exceedingly young, or simply less confident, cannot or do not attempt to join the rest of ‘us’ in using new methods of work and access to information, leisure and pleasure. In poorer countries more than 90% simply have no opportunity to do so.
This is a scandal, a wasted opportunity, and a narrow-minded take on what could and should be happening.
This paper analyses where the problems lie, how they could be solved, how business, education and training, and industry could engage. .
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