Knives are tools of creation as well as of destruction, and Mamet likes to whittle.
In those days, big game companies released games that helped put the tools of creation in the hands of users, like Electronic Arts's Pinball Construction Set (1983), Music Construction Set (1984) and Adventure Construction Set (1985).
With the accelerating pace of technological progress and our incredibly powerful tools of creation, this question has never been more relevant for everyone on planet Earth.
David Wadhwani, senior vice president for Digital Media, says these apps are "powerful enough for professionals but easy enough for anyone to use". Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen sees the "potential of touch to enlarge the number of creatives" by making the tools of creation more intuitive to use.
With our new incredibly powerful tools of creation, such as genomics, biology, computer software, robotics, artificial intelligence and virtual reality — technologies that allow us to program our existence — never has the distance between imagination and creation been so narrow, nor has our ability to author any kind of world that we can imagine been more readily accessible.
Using our natural intelligence and the external extensions of intelligence we've progressively built over the last millennium, we have now developed tools of creation such as genomics, synthetic biology and robotics that literally allow us to program our existence in any way we can imagine.
Take, for example, language, one of the oldest tools of creation.
For the first time in history, young people have the tools of creation and implementation in their hands.
Historically, tools of creation have dramatically changed how we understand and interact with the world around us.
