In every technological development, curators of culture cringe at how changes will affect the way we understand our world, how we communicate with one another, and how nature is represented.
Someone once told me about the essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by the German sociologist Walter Benjamin argues that art because inherently devalued every time it is produced, because it become further detached from its original inspiration.
But art has come a long way WITH technology. There is a whole style of "internet art" that uses reproducability and impersonability, thus, the internet as a springboard for vast creative opportunity. Check out THE SECRET LIVES OF NUMBERS by Golan Levin, back in 2000 this was pretty groundbreaking.
There are definitely two sides of it, artists (and audiences!) can resist technological innovation in pursuit of true connection to nature and their work, or embrace new inventions that change their perspective of their work.
