2076-02-21 Making Stuff Up

Moving from waking dream to solid reality is no longer fantastic magic.

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.—Kurt Vonnegut

Being creative today has a much wider range of possibilities than humans have ever had before. We can create on scales from the geographic to the molecular. We have preserved or revived every art and craft from prehistory to the present. We have the largest human audience in history, an insatiable beast that must be entertained and enlightened. People have more free time and less demand on it than even early hunter-gatherers.