We need technology that is less immersive, not more
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#2 Many of the most talented artists of our time don’t do any art — they work in advertising.
The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click adswhich is very close to article’s paraphrase
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#3I haven't played a video game that was better or more immersive than Tarzan. I hypothesize that artists, like Burroughs, could have more success than they are having today.
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#4I haven't played a video game that was better or more immersive than Tarzan. I hypothesize that artists, like Burroughs, could have more success than they are having today.
My favorite video game is Tetris, and I don't think it's a coincidence that it was produced by a society that placed consumer choice low on its list of priorities.
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#5I don’t think making less immersive games is some how more important than more immersive ones. The more important problems aren’t gated by lack of talent but lack of money and or political will. Throwing talent at it (if you could) doesn’t magically add money or political will to solve them.
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#6Bait and switch. Headline is about technology, but the article is about "entertainment".
It is a position of privilege to take that technology should be considered primarily as a consumer product.
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#7Many of the most talented artists of our time don’t do any art — they work in advertising. I think the original quote is: The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads (source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/06/12/click/ ) which is very close to article’s paraphrase
Ads have existed long before clicks on and the most talented artists have worked on them long before the most talented programmers thought about making people click on them.
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#8Many of the most talented artists of our time don’t do any art — they work in advertising. I think the original quote is: The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads (source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/06/12/click/ ) which is very close to article’s paraphrase
If they are doing advertising then they are art directors, not artists. The most talented artists make art, it's not something they have a choice in. They will suffer poverty to make their art.
Talent isn't in the execution in art, it's in the ideas, and tapestry of the artist's life.
> The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads
This is also not true, because those minds aren't intelligent enough to see the folly of their attention. The best minds see past this and do the work they are driven to do, similar to artists.
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#9Let's wind this back to the days when people thought reading books was an indulgent waste of time.
The best artists are writing trivial drivel for women to read.
The best minds are finding new ways to sell books.
It's a stupid heuristical argument.
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#10Many of the most talented artists of our time don’t do any art — they work in advertising. I think the original quote is: The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads (source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/06/12/click/ ) which is very close to article’s paraphrase
If they are doing advertising then they are art directors, not artists. The most talented artists make art, it's not something they have a choice in. They will suffer poverty to make their art. Talent isn't in the execution in art, it's in the ideas, and tapestry of the artist's life. > The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads This is also not true, because those minds aren't in…
Let’s not over romanticize the starving artist. There are plenty of creative people who could create good, worthy art if they had the means and support to pursue it fully. It’s not a moral failing to have a need to make a living, especially if others are relying on you.