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It's early days in what promises to be the long death of a galactic civilization so it is going to be hard to discern how things might reshape themselves under this bombardment, how art and the art-world might re-articulate new models of value.

Just because you are capable of building a bikeshed does not mean you should stop others from building one just because you do not like the color they plan to paint it. You need not argue about every little feature just because you know enough to do so.

Does technology liberate or enslave? The tension between technology as empowering versus technology as sinister control continues. The web versus the database, liberation or tool of tyranny?