Man Vs. Machine

I had a discussion with a friend the other day in which he was comparing humans to machines. I don’t know what enticed us to have a conversation of this magnitude, possibly that he was watching a sci-fi movie on television. Never the less, it got me to think about machines and if I should feel threatened that some super computer one day will take the art and design world by storm. Than I concluded that, this would be impossible. Machines and computers operate in binary code. Everything to them is a bunch of 1’s and 0’s. Art and design is fluid and that is all 7’s and 8’s and every other number possible. Now, granted they both have forms of intelligence. In machines and computers it is artificial. It must be programmed what to do. With art and design it is a genuine intelligence that is experienced in our daily lives. Machines are limited to their own color scale. Black and white has plenty of possibilities but is no match for the color wheel that art and design have in their arsenal . Art and design flow like electricity through each and every one of us and it is up to you how to translate that current into your own signal. How bright that signal is, is determined by you the operator.

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