Viewpoint: Yes, the increasing computerization of society is healthy for the traditional arts because new technology provides artists with better tools and greatly increases the exposure of their work within society at large.

Viewpoint: No, the increasing computerization of society is not healthy for the traditional arts, and in fact it threatens the creative process that drives artistic expression.

Every year, the pace of change in computer technology gains speed. Before the machine age, the computer was merely a concept, traceable through ideas dating to medieval times, or perhaps even to the ancient abacus. Then, at the end of World War II, with the development of ENIAC, the first truly electronic computer, the computer age was born. Thereafter computers loomed large in the popular imagination, but few people...