The Post Computer Age Is Nearing

If we get to a post computer age....I think we will be in a post civilized society age, and at that point I am not going to be worried about art or photography anymore.

I'm with Thomas I think I will be more concerned with reloading supplies!

TL Mair
tlmair.com

You could possibly say that I'm still in the early mid stages of the computer age. My only phone is a pre-paid flip phone, I have no tablet or other mobile computing device. The only computer in my car manages the engine and nothing else, even the sound "system" is just a broken AM/FM cassette player. I do however make my living on a computer but I'm butting up against my limits there, I suspect my career passed its half-life years ago. In other words, they'll drag me into the "post-computer age" kicking and screaming if that means technology becoming even more invasive than it already is.

computers will always be here. it's the same as the lightbulb, the shape changes, but everyone has to use one. it can only be gone if there was no power, or gold, or silicon. the machine will change shapes but will always be around.

they replaced the quill pen with magic markers - and people still create art similar.

though i would like to see a link making this claim.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

that bracelet is a cute idea as long as you have smooth bare white arms. if you have dark skin, hairy arms or sleeves - it fails pretty fast. tattoo's will be an issue as well, winter jackets or any kind... too many issues for an idea like that to really take off.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

But my mouse and keyboard are my best friends. I can paint, work a farm, kill bad guys, bullshit all my new 1000 friends from afar, find a new wife, create any life I want and I don't have to move an inch. Don't even have to go to the bank, FAA sales go right into Paypal for me. Donuts, coffee and pizza can be delivered so I don't even have to go out, I used to have to go get art supplies but now I just need upgrade on photoshop, can download that though.

Life is grand, hate to have to go back. Physical labor hurts now, virtual reality is where its at. When I get too old to function my kids will take good care of me. They already have an empire built. place called Sims or Farm Town I think.

Honestly Monsieur Danl, no computers, I don't know why you would even want to think that way!

LOL art will still be produced on and off computers.

computers are still in their infancy! Long way to go yet with them. The computer isn't some fad invention, it's more along the lines of paper or gunpowder. They're not going anywhere, but they will change.

Don't believe the hype. The computer is here to stay.

--Roz Abellera

A bunch of you know what.

All of the so-called new-age devices (tablets, netbooks, phones, watches, wrist bands, and more) are heavily oriented toward social and communication needs. As of now, they cannot be used to produce a professional quality print like a computer and calibrated monitor can. (well, except for instagram, of course, which allows you to bastardize an image so badly that people think a bad image is good.)

You mean like back to cave drawings?

How do we skip from the concept of computers everywhere to the end of Photoshop?

Besides Photoshop is a tool just like the typerwriter was a tool.

Y2K was going to bring the world to an end.

CDs and DVDs have been declared dead multiple times over the last 10 years.

Vinyl records were declared dead multiple times since the mid-80s.

And so on, and so on...

Computing is not a media format.

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Maybe the new art factory model will be staffed by robots instead of cheap overseas labor. No matter the ideas will still come from artist.

Although I did see a report on AI in which a computer can learn to play Atari video games from visual input.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/25/google-builds-an-ai-that-can-learn-and-master-video-games/

dream on - the next big step in art history and civilisation will be when robots start to create maybe even procreate

The silicon based computer is already obsolete.

Steam and coal trains are obsolete. We still have trains. And we'll probably have trains after diesel fuel is obsolete.

Silicon based computing is not obsolete, it's everywhere, but it's limiting, and it's not the future of computing. Quantum computing, nanotubes, just different potential ways to make computers. That shift means more applications for computers, and is in no way a signal of their demise.

What's the time frame on this no-more-computers thing? September?


Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

The consumer computer you buy today, from an engineering standpoint is obsolete.
Silicon from a computer engineering perspective is too slow compared to the atom based computer in 4 ,8 and some say 12 to 16 atom arrays..

Computing is in an infant/embryo stage and has barely begun, much less headed to a demise.

Monsieur Danl, the neighbors are at the door, I think you should come down stairs and defend or at least explain yourself. lol

Hey folks, Hmmmm, is Armeggedon near ? As Bugs Bunny said " That's all Folks " .From the looks of things worldwide I think ole Bugs may be right. Theres more to ponder then just PC's

Don't use one now so no biggie.I don't see them going away just what Mike says, changing. Unless I suppose September is far worse than I think it will be!

Never say "never".

Bill Tomsa

http://billtomsa.blogspot.com/

"Don't use one now so no biggie...."


Come on, Ronald. Is your school using tin cans and string between them?


Sorry, couldn't resist. ;)

"What's the time frame on this no-more-computers thing? September? "


Dan wins the thread.

Artist produced art will be obsolete before the computer. Computer graphics is gradually replacing actors in movies.

When the September comets explode in the atmosphere frying all integrated circuits, everyone will be back painting on cave walls with dung and animal bristles.
i'm letting my bearded grow just for such an event.

@ Cynthia: Ha! LQTH

"When the September comets explode in the atmosphere frying all integrated circuits, everyone will be back painting on cave walls with dung and animal bristles..."


When / if it does appear and explode, I'm sure there will be plenty of dung, animal and human available to use. ;)

Lotz.of dung in the forums LOL!

Greg, thought the question was about the production of art. I use computers for other things of course.

Greg, thought the question was about the production of art. I use computers for other things of course.

Yes - and they said desk top computers would go away just a few years back - and talking to a salesman in one of he big 'box' stores that sells everything from cell phones to desk tops and tablets - sales of desktops were exceeding all his other sales.

I don't understand all the paranoia around digital created art work. If anything hand crafted work is becoming more valuable. Painting still regains in the art work. Photography didn't knock it off its throne. Digital art work isn't threatening it. Why so defensive?

Are you in the right thread Edward?

In theory, given enough horsepower, computers can automatically generate any digital image we can now create manually by putting every possible pixel value in every possible location in a given area. Quantum, DNA, atomic, whatever non-silicon thing comes next, is just bringing this sooner. Perhaps that will indeed move artists "back" to non-digital media.

Is there a link to these silicon experts?
-- mary ellen anderson