Advancement

Painting isn’t obsolete because of photography. But it has changed.

Handwriting isn’t obsolete because of the Gutenberg press. But it has changed.

Furniture-making isn’t obsolete because of IKEA. But it has changed.

Art-making isn’t obsolete because of artificial intelligence. But it’s changing.

More and more, we’re only limited by our imagination, not our physical skill and dexterity. New tools are being invented every day. The latency between ideation and creation is ever shrinking.

So our task is not to fight it, but to recognize it and to understand its implications in the work we do. To honestly ask, “What’s the value of doing this the old way when it can be done in this new way?”

We don’t have to embrace every new thing and we don’t have to cling to tradition.

Instead, we can work to understand our options — all of them — and we can make informed choices.