"Art" is a concept that obviously has no one definition. For many people, art is synonymous with beauty. If they look at it and like it, it's art. I wasn't pers

"Art" is a concept that obviously has no one definition. For many people, art is synonymous with beauty. If they look at it and like it, it's art. I wasn't personally moved in this way by google maps or the iphone, but I understand that many people were. So I think the answer to the question posed in the post title for most people is "Yes, or close enough". Another function that can define art, as opposed to aesthetic beauty, is causing people to see the world in a new way. Some of the greatest art take something familiar and causes people to see it in a new way, or takes common tools and uses them in a way that is somehow surprising or unexpected (ie, the Mona Lisa or Beethoven's Fifth Symphony). I have seen and been a part of software that delighted people. I've seen simple web utilities inexplicably bring smiles to peoples' faces and moments of joy into their lives. I'll spend the rest of my life trying to do that again, to recapture that glimpse of magic. And I probably won't even come close. If that isn't art, then I don't know what is. Art can have many forms, it's a loosely defined term by intention. But good art does have a definition. Sometimes software and hardware can elevate to reach that height, but most of it does not. I wish I could think of more examples of artistic technology products, but nothing really jumps out at the moment. To quote the Supreme Court when answering a similar question, "I know it when I see it."