Part 3 of Everything Is a Remix explores the role of remixing in creativity, and in technological innovation in particular. Apple, for example, drew from a host of existing technologies from diffent companies to create their breakthrough Macintosh computer.
If you missed Part 1, see it here, along with an interview with filmmaker Kirby Ferguson, and if you missed Part 2, see it here.
For more Everything Is a Remix videos and background research, see http://www.everythingisaremix.info/.
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Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg is the former executive producer and general manager of Atlantic Studios at The Atlantic.