This talk searches for the possibilities and limitations of creativity in the digital. Are there creative undertakings that are simply beyond the reach of digital tools? What sorts of creativity does the digital encourage, and what sorts of creativity might it impede?

By examining the underlying technological principles of digital operation, I begin to illustrate how those principles enable the extraordinary and diverse possibilities of digital technologies and how they suggest certain places the digital cannot go. As more and more of our lives are lived in and through the digital, as more and more intellectual and creative tasks are conducted in cooperation with digital machines, it becomes crucial to understand how those digital environments may be shaping our thoughts and our actions. Do we now derive the possibilities of our own lives in reference to the possibilities of a digital world?