Credit where it’s due
There’s probably going to be a point in the future when computers are going to want recognition for their work.
I don’t necessarily mean the software that is used either… if that was the case, pretty much every essay submitted would have the phrase ‘spelling copyright – Microsoft’ stamped on each page followed by a disclaimer waiving all liabilities as far as Google is concerned as to the accuracy of information obtained through the Internet.
No, I mean that the original creative input of the machine itself will be of a significant enough value to warrant a mention.
And what then? You might end up parting ways over artistic differences and spending years in the courts battling over royalties.
Even if you win, you know that when you die the computer will take credit for all of it.
Do you really want that?
Make something without the aid of a computer, it’s simpler that way.
I can no longer do anything without the aid of a computer. I’m like the people in Spock’s Brain (the Star Trek episode). Which is why it will suck when I have to start going out places but don’t have a laptop or PDA to do things with and so will be creatively crippled.
I heard you could create chaos using only your bare hands… now, tell me that isn’t true?
Well sure I CAN do it, but it comes out way better when I use my computer.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=SkS5PkHQphY
Automated content creation.
Cool, thanks.
i can make things without my computer, but not without my needlenose pliers
I need to get me some of those needlenose pliers.
Won’t be long before they’ll be wanting credit too. (This nose-hair plucked courtesy of..)
oh the ironing.
/tic
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dsU3B0W3TMs&feature=related
Yup.
The soundtrack to several of my recurring nightmares, nice.
advocating not using computers by using a computer…subversive
And a li’l bit hypocritical too.
You made me think (and laugh), thanks.
So you are saying
we die when the computer
unplugs us?
…is the script to the Terminator films.
The Matrix too, right?
And, more notably, the Harlen Ellison story “I have no mouth, but I must scream.”
“Make something without the aid of a computer, it’s simpler that way.”
adam, are you just trying to give yourself credit for hand-making your books? i think you are. i appreciate that subtlety.
There has been alot of suggestions of subtlety (annoying word to say quickly).
Nah, but hand-making stuff has been on my mind recently… actually, thinking about it, since I started drawing this comic.
I’m an ideal candidate for someone that could live their life through computers. I fit the demographic very well. I could eat, sleep, shop, work and socialise using only computers and then create through them too… it would be very easy for me to be like that…
Indeed, I was like that… but there was something missing and I’ve been trying to remedy it ever since.
The point is, I think, that I wondered how much of my digital life was me, how many of my accomplishments were down to skill not application and the only way to find out was to start using my hands (and sometimes my mouth, when I run out of hands… stitching books requires a minimum of three).
I think I’ve got pretty close to a happy balance. I enjoy my time online much more these days when I know that I’m here for my own enjoyment rather than a compulsion, and I’m much happier sat working on a computer than I was when all I did was just that.
As for pimping my books though, that’s coming soon enough and there will be no subtlety about it…