I think that is an important phenonmenon: things moving from the realm of the medical or the industrial or the engineering realm into the the realm of the poetic, the abstract and the arty. In a way it shows that the arty is carnivorous. In a weird kind of way it is stronger than the engineering because it gets to feed on the leavings of the other one. I mean, engineering doesn’t feed on dead art, but art can feed on dead engineering. So, there’s something very provocative going on there. I mean, the strength of art is underestimated. So, I think about art seriously, and I like to think about the future of art, the long term future of art, like what might art be like 200 years from now. There’s never been a time when we were without it. There are tremendous cave paintings from 20,000 years ago.
Bruse Sterling