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The Arrival of a Train

The Arrival of a Train

A talk on the difference between Creativity and Innovation, and lessons from the tech and software industries that can help other creative disciplines. I wrote and delivered it at the European Film Forum on "Creativity, Technology, Finance & Democracy for Europe post 2020".

Ricardo J. Méndez

November 30, 2018
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  1. November 30, 2018 / [email protected]
    @ArgesRic

    https://mastodon.social/@ricardojmendez/
    The Arrival of a Train
    Ricardo J. Méndez

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    Preview of Coming Attractions

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  3. In the beginning…

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    Auguste and
    Louis Lumière
    • Invented the
    cinématographe
    • Multiple movie patents
    • Color film technology
    and the color plate.

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    1895
    • February: patented the
    cinématographe.
    • March 19: recorded footage.
    • March 22: first private
    showings.
    • December: paid public
    screening of 10 shorts.

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    And understood
    marketing!

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    “Cinema is an
    invention without
    any future”

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  9. Innovation

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    If you are truly innovating, you
    have no idea what you are doing.

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    It's not about the gadget, but
    about what you make out of it.

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  12. Creativity

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    Realistic?
    Really?

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    Tech demo

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    This.
    This is new.

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  17. Innovation vs.
    Creativity

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    Innovation is about making
    something new.
    Creativity is about how you use this
    new thing you have created.

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    vs.

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    “What happens when
    film meets tech?”

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    Film is tech

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    1-to-1 replacements are
    easy to reason about

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  24. Moving on…

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    There was once a
    tiny company…

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    It wasn’t just this,
    either.

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    What mattered were new
    users and machines.

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    Sure. So what?

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    Users. Not viewers.

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    Customized.
    Personal.
    Apocryphal.

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    Create a read/write
    future. We don’t have a
    monopoly on creativity.

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    Tech can enable us.

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  40. @argesric @samsungnext
    11 Laws That Choke Creativity
    https://youtu.be/7Q25-S7jzgs

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  42. @argesric @samsungnext
    But what if they copy
    my stuff?

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    This is a
    post-scarcity era.

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    “The problem isn’t
    piracy.
    The problem is
    obscurity.”
    — Cory Doctorow

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  45. A larger pattern

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    It is always a bad idea to
    bet against openness.

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  48. The Arrival of a Train

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    (fade to black, roll credits)
    Contact: [email protected]

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