tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10547970.post2658282005307255749..comments2024-03-13T01:04:34.580-04:00Comments on <b>Canadian Entrepreneur</b>: Best Entrepreneurship Quotes, Week 20Rick Spencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09147840937518662183noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10547970.post-56543320196225410832010-07-03T09:53:14.775-04:002010-07-03T09:53:14.775-04:00Thanks for the comment, Recruiting. I think you...Thanks for the comment, Recruiting. I think you're on to something.<br /><br />Is is possible that the creative challenge (or at least, its means of expression) changes every generation or so? Thus making each new generation uniquely more suited to develop breakthrough innovations?<br /><br />The disruptive Impressionists of the late 19th century were swept away by postwar realism. Vaudeville was killed by movies and their cornball stunts and sentimentalism. Counter-culture op art, BASIC, desktop publishing, and computer graphics all led the way in creativity, in their day. <br /><br />Now perhaps the creative medium of choice is the mobile platform, the tablet, or the Apps Store.<br /><br />Who is to say previous generations were less creative? What we do know is that the newer generation is probably more qualified to create lasting innovations in the burgeoning new technologies that they alone have grown up with.Rick Spencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09147840937518662183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10547970.post-47078042193459762052010-07-02T19:10:05.657-04:002010-07-02T19:10:05.657-04:00Great read but Jenkins makes the standard claim th...Great read but Jenkins makes the standard claim that the younger generation has "creative functions" that are "far superior to the generations that came before." <br /><br />This is hogwash. Here's the <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/" rel="nofollow">Digital Nation</a> episode of Frontline on PBS. <br /><br />Every study I've read says that the multi-tasking typical of GenY makes you good at switching your attention from one thing to another but keeps you at a shallow level of thought. Is that creative?Recruiting Animalhttp://www.recruitinganimal.comnoreply@blogger.com