You probably shouldn't ask an artist about a useful formula for concrete, or to troubleshoot your jacquard loom, or which js framework to use: that's what engineers are for. But the products of those tools will be more successful if someone other than an engineer has input into the building's proportions, or the cloth's colors, or the page's layout. That's all art, and imminently sensible - even by the most nakedly commercial definition of "sense".
At a larger scale, and just to pick the least controversial and most popular on this board: did Ridley Scott and Matt Damon say nothing sensible about technology in The Martian? Or Neal Stephenson in, like, anything?
At a still larger scale, artists have always engaged with the ways technology changes society (or, in fact, the way that technology changes art) - in celebration and in warning, in observation and in speculation, and in all modes between. Turner's The Fighting Temeraire is an easily-graspable example.
Often artists are wrong, of course, as anyone (including technologists and venture capitalists) can be, but that's very different than not "sensible".
Ha! Thanks. Irony's so easy to miss on the internet - and this topic especially seems to attract "non-sensible" responses on this board, so my antennae are a bit too finely tuned.
You probably shouldn't ask an artist about a useful formula for concrete, or to troubleshoot your jacquard loom, or which js framework to use: that's what engineers are for. But the products of those tools will be more successful if someone other than an engineer has input into the building's proportions, or the cloth's colors, or the page's layout. That's all art, and imminently sensible - even by the most nakedly commercial definition of "sense".
At a larger scale, and just to pick the least controversial and most popular on this board: did Ridley Scott and Matt Damon say nothing sensible about technology in The Martian? Or Neal Stephenson in, like, anything?
At a still larger scale, artists have always engaged with the ways technology changes society (or, in fact, the way that technology changes art) - in celebration and in warning, in observation and in speculation, and in all modes between. Turner's The Fighting Temeraire is an easily-graspable example.
Often artists are wrong, of course, as anyone (including technologists and venture capitalists) can be, but that's very different than not "sensible".