(4/2010) Digital Technologies Affect Creative Artists (Breaking News and Opinion‪)‬

Arthur Rosenfeld-- Funeral rites for the novel and other solo efforts have birthed the notion that the contribution of the individual is waning, subsumed by some sort of global consciousness that deprives us of individual ownership of ideas and creative property. In part this is a notion of manipulative economics, and in part it is a large, evolutionary idea that is partly to do with the way we use tools. In writing about the effect of Apple's new iPad, Chauncey Mabe, former book review editor at the Florida Sun-Sentinel, often refers to the way such tools change us.