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I could have entitled this article “Technology and Human Ingenuity.” In a very real sense, art is human ingenuity. And often this involves helping other to be innovative by engineering software for expressing one’s thoughts, ideas and opinions. Here are some examples. However, I want you to submit additional ideas, through the “comments” feature below, about how other software could be created, or existing software modified, to allow Cool Young Artists to create a Variety of Ideas!

Photo Editing
Think well beyond Adobe PhotoShop, Google Picasa and open source GIMP. What will the photo editing software of the future look like? Pictures may become videos or holograms. The observers, which now may be called users, may be able to converse with holographic images. Or, simply by speaking to a microphone , colors or background may change in a given image. By simply saying a date, week, month or year, all images during that timeframe could immediately be displayed.

Messaging
First there was email, then instant messaging, then texting and then tweets! Notice the trend, from asynchronous to synchronous. People want to communicate directly, even though they are located on opposite corners of the earth! Certainly satellite communications is required and will be in the future.

Think about instant communication with any one of six plus billion people! When a person is born, he or she is given a code for life. Certainly that person should have ultimate control over that code. However, it would be interesting if any one person could instantly communicate with any other person by accessing a code. The code must go well beyond numbers and letters and involve unique physiological factors such as DNA, retina and other eye structures, or even something as mundane as fingerprints, which are still unique to each individual.

Video Editing
Continuing the thought progression of photo editing above into the realm of Star Trek’s “Holideck,” video editing may evolve into re-visiting video created by our thoughts of past events. Research on dreams, which often appear as very real video with us as the central character, may reveal how to control our thoughts to produce such re-visiting. Then, “artists of the mind” may appear by some people with very innovative artistic minds.

Text Editing
Less than 30 years ago, word processing was in its infancy. Today, much communication has been possible simply by rearranging our thoughts in word processing, which I am actually doing right now. If our minds can change the actions of our fingers, can’t our minds change the actions produced by our thoughts. What might these actions be? How about output on the computer screen that images our thoughts. It may sound weird, an invasion of personal privacy, and maybe even ridiculous, but text editing would be brought to a whole new dimension if we could “harness” our thoughts as we edit our thoughts more efficiently, just as we edit our writing more efficiently with a word processor.

Other Imaginative Software
Are you thinking about how to become a software engineer? That’s great! What I have tried to do above is to get you and other readers to think “out of the box,” with little regard as to whether it appears weird or ridiculous at first. That is where new innovations in technology and artistry are generated. And certainly technology and artistry have much in common and certainly can be inextricably linked. Innovative artists, perhaps even more than innovative scientists, can and should play very significant roles in the future of mankind!

Please comment below. Your thoughts, ideas and opinions are all most appreciated. Thank you for reading and participating with other Cool Young Artists!