Has ____Ruined ____?

 

Fill in the blanks: Has Photoshop ruined photography? Has ProTools ruined music (or the recording process)? Other euphemisms have included "disruptive technologies", which transform how we view older technologies as having certain a readiness for change, but "ruin" is hyperbolic. These ruminations come in the form of a rhetorical teaser, like on local weather forecasts before a commercial: Is there rain on the way in your area? I never waste time waiting for the catch on this ridiculous bait, whether it be an article, or or anything else. Creative people (that actually don't work in TV) usually avoid this kind of content, as to avoid the rhetorical questions about certain genre deaths. TV itself is immortal in the same way plain Creativity is. I love that people still want to write songs and make paintings, when they were pronounced dead too many times before. 

[1/21/2025: The teaser of the past few years has been a variation on “Will AI kill ____?” For me, AI hasn’t killed music because if you already are a musician by nature, AI, as just another development in computer technology and networking, doesn’t change the world in which you exist to any degree which is not controllable. Of course, a TV that is off in a room reminds you of the world in which it exists, but if you leave it off it doesn’t change the world much, unless it is your inner world that has changed, and you are engaging with a world that is coming through TV and the internet, and it changes yours. It is a glacially slow erosion that you don’t see happening and you think the new eroded world is the one you always knew. It’s a trick of the mind. It’s a new normal that you think is the old].