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>>On the other hand maybe the strong belief that we seem to hold as a culture, that we lose creative imagination as we get older, is not supported in reality. BTW this belief in a more creative innocent childhood is a reletivly recent phenonoma, developing during the romantic period and influenced by the writings of Rousseau.<< Trying not to complain, i think feeling young and creative is not_at_all a question of age. As you mentioned, 'childhood' like it is known today was an invention of the romantic period, before this nobody made a difference between children or adults. Beeing creative is a question of personal freedom and opportunity to work, not of the date of your birth. As Joseph Beuys said: "Everybody is an artist". >> Computers fool these folks into thinking that there is a painless way to produce without preperation.<< This is the bad point about this fact. Not only computers make them think so. It is a question of total lack of orientation about culture and ways to go. And this becomes true for all of us. Who can tell what is worth to be produced and what is not? What kind of culture does this machine i'm working on? On one hand it is absolutely exiting to use all the technical features for worldwide communication with words and grapher K.