3 ms·
I think that creators everywhere across the globe are feeling that their craft may soon be roboticized or in some way automated. From storytellers to designers
by surume 4y ago
I think that creators everywhere across the globe are feeling that their craft may soon be roboticized or in some way automated. From storytellers to designers to programmers.
So if the machines take care of all the building / making / doing work, then what's left is coming up with the ideas, no?
- trynewideas 4y agoThere are a few particular paths: - Tech democratizes an artform by allowing anyone to realize any idea - Tech disenfranchises artists by putting less efficient human artisans, regardless of skill, out of business - Tech results in the permanent loss of certain manual techniques as human artisans quit or die without apprentices, and documentation (if present) isn't sufficient to reproduce - Without human artisans, tech limits the creation of art to those with access to the tech - With access limited, tech turns the creation of art into a factor of class by allowing those with access to gatekeep it from those without - Individuals within classes that lack access to the tech, and therefore to the artform, create new manual forms of art - Novel new artforms excite and inspire non-artisans - Non-artisans develop tech to bridge the gap - Tech democratizes that artform...