Speaking of Jaron Lanier: I actually saw him at BayCHI around 2000 or so, and someone asked him if Swing would ever come back. He said, no, Swing was alive and

Speaking of Jaron Lanier: I actually saw him at BayCHI around 2000 or so, and someone asked him if Swing would ever come back. He said, no, Swing was alive and things that are alive, die. If you consider an artform like an ecosystem: there are epochs when many long-lasting species evolve and flourish, and others that are pretty barren. There's no reason to think that the general health of the ecosystem is always the same.