Easy

Easy is not lessening pain or misery, nor is it necessarily to help lessen unwanted chores, work or mind-numbing repetition. To lessen these things is not always easy. To have more time for leisure is not necessarily creating more time for creativity or imagination because these things are not easy. So, what is it to make something “easy”?

The first possible explanation is that it does not take much effort or understanding in order to accomplish an easy thing. A second possible explanation is that one already has the knowledge and understanding to accomplish a task. However, that does not mean that it has always been easy to that person.

In the same way technology is not necessarily progress. It does not make life creative or allow uncreative people to be creative or imaginative. Technology, however, does make life easy. This has an interesting effect.

First, it would seem to have creative and progressive effect on a few creative and imaginative folks while lessening that effect on most others. Also, it seems to create the illusion of creativity and imagination for those that are actually not creative or imaginative.

In the worst-case scenario, wisdom becomes information and creativity becomes a cut-n-paste project. In the best case scenario, technology makes it easy to further the difficult task of actually being creative and imaginative.