Kirby Ferguson: Embracing the remix

Nothing is original, says Kirby Ferguson, creator of Everything is a Remix. From Bob Dylan to Steve Jobs, he says our most celebrated creators both borrow, steal and transform.

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[thurst306]

Those 40 dislikes are all the people that bought an Iphone 5.

[BeTheChangeTVP]

"Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in different ways."

Jacque Fresco

[avedic]

Just got done watching his online documentary. Brilliant. Utterly brilliant...and very well made.

I find it absolutely fascinating how biological evolution mirrors memetic social evolution. Copy, Transform, Combine....Cellular Mitosis, Mutation/Natural Selection, Sexual Reproduction

It's the same thing...amazing.

That's why the anti-evolution people bug me. They are denying the inherent function of not just biological life...but of reality itself. EVERYTHING evolves. Reality IS creativity.

[MELODICMOODMAKER]

LAVOISIER :"In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes."

[thernr]

So right about Apple, but they can get away with it because of our lax Patent Offices around the world...I wish this video is shared with important people around the world who legislate on this.

[vlogandy]

This is obviously just a rip off of a talk given by Lessig. :P

[arcadian28]

remake remodel by roxy music...cut ups by burroughs and ..bowie the career !! not new ..

[lockfoilew]

I've enjoyed my fully functioning microsoft and other non-apple products over the past few years as well. I also have an ipod touch which still works great(I take care of things). The three things apple turns me off for are the prices, compatibility, and overall (lack)freedom of customization... As if we're all going to open them up and steal ideas. What.

[MozVolta]

What I hate the most about Apple is their attitude of "we invented everything", when clearly they didn't really invent much, then turning around and suing everyone simply because they were somehow granted a BS patent. Apple seem to be on autopilot at the patent office. Whatever they file for they get. Someone is getting a lot of free iPads at the USPTO.

There's a YouTube video challenging people to find something Apple actually invented, and so far no one's come up with anything significant.

[Zane DuFour]

Bro. I like having apple products. They don't stop working. (atleast mine havent). I can't say the same for the 3 microsoft computers I have owned in the past.

[SuckItLily]

All companies are assholes, in fact they have no other choice but to be assholes. It's how the market works.

[AFSRodrigues]

You can change your opinion, but you must assume it, and can be called out for it.

It's very convenient to have an opinion favorable to "stealing" when you are the "thief", and then changing it when you become the "victim".