My kids blew up my car over the Christmas holidays.

I watched, in awe, as the video showed our car sitting in our driveway being hit by a missile that tore out of the sky.  Flames burst skyward and bits of the car spilled out on to the ground as it was engulfed in thick black smoke.

Thank goodness it was just a special effect on their iPods.

It was an app, a free app actually, that they had downloaded.  It was being used as a form of promotion for the new Mission Impossible film.  It let them film their own footage and then apply one of a number of disastrous effects.

The quality is outstanding, easily as good as any film you saw in the 80′s and 90′s, and it was being done by a 12 year old and his 9 year old brother on their handheld computers.

It struck me that technology used to be a huge barrier for creativity.  Now it’s barely a speed bump… and a rapidly eroding speed bump at that.

We still need people to advance technology.  That’s still important, however…

Creativity is where it’s at.

As it becomes easier and easier to actualize the ideas in our heads, the best ideas will be the most valuable/successful/important.