While the article offers a number of glimpses from different perspectives I’ve found Otto Rank’s Art and Artist to be the most piercing and cogent analysis of creativity I’ve read. If this article was at all interesting I’d highly recommend it.
I think there's room for both types in the ever expanding genre of electronic music. Perhaps its a little too open ended to call all types of noise music… but why should music be constrained to something appealing to listen to?
Much of the conversation in this thread leaves me a bit sad. Depriving a person a social interaction is some of the harshest punishment given in the US prison system. To assert that instagram, or emojis, or VR is devaluing that in some way doesn’t sit right with me. Even a conversation I might view as “worthless” still gives deep insight into that persons inner thought process. And I’m certain I’d rather have worthless conversations than be deprived of human interaction. Perhaps things are changing too quickly for many people to process, myself included, but overall I’m bullish on new technologies enabling deeper more meaningful connections.
While this is certainly true, facebook, google, Microsoft, and a bunch of other hyperscale cloud providers still regularly dump hardware on ebay for great prices.
While sure I think it’s wise to stay weary of any company you give your data to, Mark said that when he was 19 and Facebook was limited to students. I think it’s disingenuous to use a quote from 2004 to represent his thinking today.
It has been said time and time again, but I'll reiterate that time spent having fun is not time wasted. While many of the hackernews readers would like to think that we are machines, we aren't. I'm sure you've wasted lots of time on certain things over the years, so why the snide comment?