{"id":2201,"date":"2011-04-12T18:30:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T22:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2011-04-12T18:30:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T22:30:27","slug":"technological-innovations-and-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/12\/technological-innovations-and-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Technological Innovations and the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Successful innovators in sciences and technology are artistic people. Stimulate the arts and you stimulate innovation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have always maintained that any skill or talent acquired can be attributed in part to an innate creative impulse; be it to learn something new or build something new. I am sure many of you can relate to this: that never ending fascination and driving force which compels one to create. Ultimately, creativity is the driving force on which all software is based and, one could argue, on which <em>everything<\/em> is based.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I came across a rather interesting article on <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">scienceblogs<\/a> titled <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/art_of_science_learning\/2011\/04\/the_art_of_scientific_and_tech_1.php\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Art of Scientific and Technological Innovations&#8221;<\/a>. The article describes numerous scientific and technological breakthroughs which are based on artistic concepts. These include breakthroughs in such fields as engineering, medicine, biology and more. <\/p>\n<p>Certainly a good read for any UI Engineer. Also, for those who find the link between creativity and programming interesting, I highly recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/pragprog.com\/titles\/ahptl\/pragmatic-thinking-and-learning\" target=\"_blank\">Pragmatic Thinking and Learning<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.toolshed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Hunt<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Successful innovators in sciences and technology are artistic people. Stimulate the arts and you stimulate innovation. I have always maintained that any skill or talent acquired can be attributed in part to an innate creative impulse; be it to learn something new or build something new. I am sure many of you can relate to this: that never ending fascination&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/12\/technological-innovations-and-the-arts\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-user-experience-design"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}