Stephen escreveu:
> On 28/02/2011 5:07 PM, nemesis wrote:
> 
>>
>> better tools made us dumber. We have a remote in our hands and no desire
>> other than zapping mindlessly...
>>
> 
> That may be the case for you but better tools make me get more out of them.

That's not what I see in general: compare our angular, plain and boring 
architecture engineered with the help of CAD software with that from the 
baroque period; Mozart symphonies to trance music made with computers; 
Dickens manuscripts to Dan Brown writing in Word with spell checker and 
still getting it wrong...

You may be a renascentist living nowadays and making the most out of 
your superior tools, but most are not. ;)

>> Sometimes I wonder about a modern digital sound studio in the hands of
>> Bach or Degas in the possession of photoshop...
> 
> You could always ask David Hockney.

ah, I read that argument of his before.  He seems to believe it 
impossible for someone to paint photorealistic paintings akin to those 
of the old masters, even in the face of plenty of evidence by any 
competent arts student to the contrary.  I can understand him feeling 
that way for not knowing how to paint, though. :)

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