Memories of Our Youth

Popular music can be catchy, inspiration, emotional, social, fun, retro and a million other labels.  While watching this video, I draw back to a time in my youth of listening to Soul and Top 40 music on an AM transistor radio.  I could never imagine, at that time, how music would be available to me on multiple platforms while combining video, and editable, aspects.  Technology drives pop music and presents us the enjoyment of fresh talent in myriad ways.  While my daughter loves Justin Bieber, I'll take Bruno Mars and B.O.B. as a current guide to the reflective reminder of my youth. 
Think about your own love for popular music.  Will it someday produce heartfelt images and sounds of your distant past?

Creativity In The Age Of Convergence

Ideas are ever new.  This maxim describes our lives, our professions and our choices of media.  Buying a new phone for its vast and fast applications might be thrilling today; however, tomorrow that phone becomes obsolete when a competitor releases version 5.5.  Ideas are ever evolving, like technology.  One does not need to be a technologist, a rocket scientist or a PhD to fully create innovate concepts.  I propose that it is the innovative idea that keeps us engaged in a rapidly converging media landscape.
Convergence, in one form or another, is as old as time.  The wheel began rapid transportation and time for leisure.  Gutenberg's movable type gave us mass education, new literacy, social movements and new ways to examine our world.  Facebook and Google redefined the meaning of friends and research.

At the core, creative ideas drove these technologies and spawned further innovations.  Creativity promotes convergence and convergence, at least in the media sense, promotes fresh approaches to stay ahead of the curve.  The next idea is always the best one.