After "bytebeat" & Robot X. & datamoshing*, i can already foresee the development of humanly-pleasing, quasi-random computer-generated media (whether images, music, or words) that satisfy the casual desire for entertainment-distraction, & obviate the commercial need for content-providers. All that will remain will be the creative development & differentiation of branding... Those with a taste for oldmedia will, of course, be able to find it in specialty-niche markets--at a price. Just as a few collect 8-tracks or 78 RPM records; silent movie aficionados (& really, when was it ever easier to find such stuff since the lapse of their heyday?); books of poetry in prior Englishes... But will the internet endure, once downsizing proceeds beyond a certain point? I fear these things will be lost, after that. What "use" are they, to the ones who are coming?
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*not to mention Harold Cohen's AARON
