What will we see coming out of App Inventor? Probably lots of junk, but does that matter? In Cognitive Surplus, Clay Shirky talks about the “stupidest possible creative act,” which he associates with LOLcats. What Clay realizes, and what Google realizes, is that the “stupidest possible creative act” is much better than no creative act at all, or limiting creativity to a small elite. A world full of LOLcats is preferable to a world full of network sitcoms. The history of creativity is filled with lots of trash; but in a weird way, the trash enables the truly great creative works to come into being. You can’t have one without the other.
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App Inventor and the culture wars - O’Reilly Radar (via bijan)
The creation of online social entertainment is a war against television. You are not taking way 10 minutes of quality time with the kids, you are freeing someone from 10 minutes of soap operas.
