A Different Kind of Hero

I found an interesting article, How Jobs Rescued Old Media, written by Jaime Weinman on Texas A&M's Library Database program. There a few processes to go through to discover if this article is a scholarly article worthy of a research paper. However, the database makes it pretty simple for students to know if it is scholarly, because it literally tells you if it is or not. This article happens to be scholarly, according to the database, but I figured I would do my own proving just to be safe. Peer reviewing is a big key to being scholarly, and this article is peer reviewed. Finally, the author is an editor for a big time magazine in Canada called Maclean's. The three of these reasons make this article scholarly with no doubt in my mind.

This article was very interesting to me, as an owner of many Apple products. The main point is that Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, actually helped the traditional media industry. This seems ironic, because it is a completely new industry that is very modern, but he helped save the industry from the actions of piracy going on about a year ago. He gave this world an inexpensive way to pay for a single song, instead of illegally downloading these songs. Jobs was very passionate about the music industry and hated to see it go downhill.

I believe this author has very accurately portrayed the events of iTunes and of Steve Jobs. The author does not use language that is too strongly persuasive and just sticks to the facts. He concludes that switching from a world of CD's filled with 12 songs to a world of "singles", that Apple and Steve Jobs have successfully kept music in people's lives.

I Don't Have as Many Creativity Genes as this Person...

I was hoping to find something creative on the Web, so that I could right about the newest and latest technology. I am not super tech-savvy for a 19 year-old guy, so I am not really too sure of what on the upcoming list of new technology. I decided to search YouTube, and hoped for an eyecatching video, and most definitely discovered one. This video can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a8m037Hkfo, and is simply titled "The Last Digital Technology."

I hope everyone can watch this video, because it is really important to be able to grasp everything that I will be talking about. This new invetion from Microsoft is called "surface computing." Basically, you can use your hands to do anything you would normally do with a mouse. Also, almost anything that is laying outside of the computer can be photographed by the cameras underlying cameras and be transported to the screen. This would include the use of your credit card, photographs and more. Jig saw puzzles were even being done with a video instead of a typical picture.

This thing seems amazing! I wrote about this because I believe it is the most creative and groundbreaking discovery available right now. It takes laptops and even iPads to an entire new level. Although they said they will first be used by restaurants and companies, they said it should reach houses in the next four years. It is honestly incredible to me that is happening so fast. The craziest part is that I could do a similar search in only six months, and a new, even better invention will be available. I don't know if one has a "creative" gene, but whoever came up with this invention is loaded with them. This, my friends, is creativity at its finest....as of today.