Generativity
Description
Antonio Blanco-Gracia:
"The developmental psychologist Erik Erikson coined the term and defined it as “the concernin establishing and guiding the next generation [...] the concept is meant to include [...]productivity and creativity [...] which, however, cannot replace it” (Erikson, 1993: 240).Generativity orients the collective agency towards the care and reproduction of the life of thewhole community; but also orients all its production and production tools. While the opposite of abundance is scarcity, the opposite of generativity is sterility. Its productivity dimensioncomes because it can, somehow, reproduce itself, and it is applied also to technology: “theability of a technology platform or technology ecosystem to create, generate or produce newoutput, structure or behavior without input from the originator of the system” (Wikipedia,2017). In terms of creativity, it is connected to the availability to others to create uponsomething: “a system’s capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfilteredcontributions from broad and varied audiences” (Zittrain, 2009: 70)."
Examples
See: Generative Internet