We exchanged ideas without busy signals, phone tag, appointments or travel. His method of brainlining involves giving a problem to one member of the GTT who adds ideas and passes the file around to other members, collecting a rich assortment of input from around the world. Access to Ideas Your computer can't make you more creative any more than QuarkXPress can make you a better designer. But creativity software and brainlining allow you to out-produce people who don't use them by speeding up the idea process. The more I look, the more ways I find to come up with ideas.
Computer software is just one more.
As long as you keep your thinking original, you'll never have to worry about the computer taking your place as a source of creative ideas. Peter Lloyd runs Right Brain Works , which promotes creative thinking through live presentations, radio programs and audio tapes. Reply to this article.