Design and technology

[Jason Topp]

I'm just nitpicking here, Jason, but I don't think B.B. King said there are only two chord chages in a 12-bar blues. There are, depending on how you look it it, either three or seven. There are three chords in a basic blues, and you traditionally change chord positions between the three seven times. You can fiddle with that basic framework in many, many ways, but the I-IV-V progression (that is, in the key of A, for instance, you count: A-b-c-D-E-f-g) is standard.

I'm just sticking up for blues musicians; they wouldn't want people going around thinking they only have to play two chords per song to get paid. Three definitely increases the workload.

Other than that, I agree with your point.

Rick - my memory must be playing tricks on me (not the first time).  Looks like you are right.

[paul cowley]

Jim ....re-reading my post its probably me who was railing, and I was probably jumping to a conclusion with too little information.

 Part of my frustration stems from my growing up in the world of fine arts academia, [my father being a university art proffessor], trying to comprehend an Art era comparable to the 'dark ages' of golf design, the 'modern' and 'post modern 'periods.....not that all was bad, but over the years I got my fill of cutting edge 'works', and by the time we got to 'conceptual artists' sometime in the eighties, I had let the mainstream art world gratefully pass me by.

  Which might be one reason I gravitated towards a form follows function, nature based design arena.

[David Druzisky]

It seems that as with everything else, technology has simply compressed things.  Though it is meant to help us in application we all just cram more in.  The problem is that in design our brains just can't keep up - at least most of us - in the creative process.  Creativity still needs due time.

In golf construction technology has been helpful in that it gives us more tools to get across our creativity - like more brushes for the artist.  But they are still just tools.  Like AutoCad is for plan production - not design.  ( Who else has had graphics produced from some graphic design or advertising firm and it appears as just a bunch of junk put together on a high dollar computer program by someone that does not understand art.)

As Mark hinted, technology lets us communicate with our projects more and without it I think the larger firms might not be as effective, thus not have so much work.  How would courses be different today with just that?