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Indeed. The Everything Is A Remix series has been great for showing this. The 3rd part actually covers Apple and their "inventions", too, but all are very inter

• Tloewald 13y ago
  The idea that everything is a remix is a bit like moral relativism. The fact that things sit somewhere on a spectrum doesn't mean we should ignore the distribution of things on that spectrum.
  • dragonwriter 13y ago
    > The idea that everything is a remix is a bit like moral relativism. The fact that things sit somewhere on a spectrum doesn't mean we should ignore the distribution of things on that spectrum. Tangential to your main point, but that analogy is pretty bad because that's actually nothing like moral relativism, as moral relativism doesn't hold that "everything is on a spectrum". The divide between moral relativism and absolutism isn't between morality being continuous valued and binary valued, but between it being subjective and objective. Anything about morality falling on a spectrum or not is orthogonal to relativism.
    • Tloewald 13y ago
      You're right of course, it was a poor analogy for exactly the reason you cite. What I was probably thinking of was the somewhat related trope: "society is to blame" for the actions of a criminal. It may be that many criminals have shitty childhoods, but plenty of people who have shitty childhoods aren't criminals. The Mac team may not have invented the Mac from nothing, just as Intel didn't invent the transistor, but insofar as they did recycle old ideas, what they created was markedly better in many ways than what they received, and that's how we measure innovation (I think).
• stretchwithme 13y ago
  The remix itself is what is new. That, and the work of refining it into something usable.