Online search engines give us access to information about folks who dedicated their lives to expressive work, in ways that were unimaginable when I was a youngster.
As a result, doing research is so much easier than it used to be, which is likely to have some impact on creativity and generating ideas.
For those of us who are inclined towards identifying patterns of behaviour, new insights come as gifts.
Cultural production is likely to be affected profoundly by these possibilities.
Change can sometimes be painful to deal with, but in many cases we are only being encouraged to reassess what it means to be creative and communicative.
