> The value of computers is not inherent; it is...
# linking-together
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The value of computers is not inherent; it is what we are able to do with them that makes them valuable. But what we can do with computers is often limited by the depth to which we are able to think creatively, translate these thoughts into computationally articulated work, and then share that work with others. For this reason, digital tools that foster creativity and collaboration hold immeasurable power. So how can we push digital creative tools to their full potential as co-creators, thus harnessing the full power of creative thought and computational actualization to enable human innovation?
https://www.mollymielke.com/cc
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She seems like someone we should invite to this community, @Ivan Reese
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Great read and worth paying attention to footnotes and referenced articles. Many of them most of us here probably know already, but I found a few interesting ones that hadn’t shown up on my radar yet.
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https://theusercondition.computer feels related. I see @ogadaki shared it here a few weeks ago: https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/C5U3SEW6A/p1614009556030100?thread_ts=1614009556.030100&cid=C5U3SEW6A Personal note: I've been having some angst lately about this question. What do I want to do with this computer I'm building, even if I was able to get it "done"? I don't have a good answer. My answers from a few years ago when I started working on it ("your own webserver in the cloud!") increasingly seem ill-posed. The world is changing too fast.
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Your original answer was quite abstract as well... What were you planning the webserver to do?
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Things like handle comments for my blog, or create a feedreader, or an alternative UI for websites I read. All things I tried to do in the past with Ruby or Javascript, but eventually gave up on because of the amount of time they sucked up for ongoing maintenance. Ooh, that reminds me that one idea I've had is a browser for FoC history. I put up a disk image containing all the JSON, and anybody can load it up in Qemu to get a little text-mode UI for browsing history. I think pushing for this one might take care of my angst 🙂