Style is timeโs fool. Form is timeโs student
Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.
Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.
We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last!
Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive.
Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.