Adam Huttler- What creativity will look like in our technological future

Adam Huttler is the CEO and Founder of Fractured Atlas, one of the largest arts-related non-profits in the world. He's also the founder of the recent Exponential Creativity Fund, a VC fund investing in the future of creativity. Click here to check out my podcast with Adam, or type in 'Adriel's Curious City' into any podcasting app!

Below are some things I learned from this episode's guest.

Adam's words are in bold. My personal comments are in italics.

The point of an arts education isn’t to turn everyone into professional artists. It’s to help them be more human.

• Having grown up surrounded by arts, I'm fortunate to have learned this early. Many others may never learn it at all. The point of the arts is to appreciate simple beauty. It's to participate in humanity. It's to remember that we live incredibly gifted lives.
• Making money, being ambitious- all that is great (and not necessarily separate from the arts). But connecting with other mindsets, understanding emotions, valuing beauty. All that is what an arts education can teach."What's indisputable are the benefits of art making to the creator."

It is very rare for an entrepreneur to start a business just to make money. They want to change the world, they want to make a difference.

• While money may be a motivating factor, and certainly a great reward at the end of a long journey, it is not enough to guide entrepreneurs through the long and arduous journey they start.

Capitalism is about providing goods and services that people want. There are ways to make money by delivering experiences [in the arts.]

• Art and making money are not separate things. I once heard that all artists are entrepreneurs and all entrepreneurs are artists. Just because you're working on a career as a theater director, video editor, or painter, does not mean you are cursed to (or should be viscously against) a life of no money.
• Adam talks about Lego, adult coloring books, and anything that allows people to take control of their artistic experience as opportunities to charge people for their work.

Technology is a force of nature. This is happening whether we like it or not.

• Spoken like a true Singularity University alumni, Adam is convinced that technology will continue to be a pervasive force in our worlds. We have just two options- sit back, watch hopefully, and complain that things don't go our way, OR take control of the reigns and guide the course of technology.