Today I can do this.
Today I can be told about a cool web site, that lets you create your very own Jackson Pollock styled web painting. The site was made by Miltos Manetas, a contemporary artist, so I learn from his website. (And incidentally, the site is a great thing to have up during long conference calls … just kidding all you co-workers out there 
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Today I can go to that site. I can chew up bandwidth drawing and doodling. I can download my picture, upload it again, and blog it.
And, no-one on any of the various sites involved in this process had to pay their telco for priority service.
Will tomorrow’s Miltos Manetases be able to create such sites? Will they actually work, or will they be slow, sporadically available unless the artist can affort to pay for the fast lane of the two-tiered internet? And if so, will we have access to such things?
What a poorer future our corporate leaders have in mind for us all. Oh wait, they’re planning to get rich(er) off of this.
UPDATE: Just was poking around Miltos’s site, and found a link to his Whitney Biennial flash museum. Very cool. Same comments apply.
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