Exporing the possibilities

‘Most art schools today teach classes in Digital Art, which to them means How to Use Adobe Photoshop. Although such courses often claim to explore the possibilities of a new medium, they generally explore little more than the possibilities that somebody else (namely, Adobe) has found convenient to package in a piece of commercial software.’

— Golian Levin
Generative Design: Beyond Photoshop

Indeed, computers are everywhere and are used to perform so many tasks. It is difficult to think of any subjects taught in colleges that are not involved with computers and software. We can generalize the quotation above to read:

Most schools today teach classes in any subjects you care to learn, which to them means How to use a piece of expensive software (name the brand and the package you want). Although such courses often claim to explore the possibilities of a new approach to the subject matter, they generally explore merely a minute portion of the possible functions that somebody else (name the vendor of your chosen software) has found convenient to package in a piece of commercial software.

It seems that computers can do everything. We ask them to do more and more for us. In fact, have we notice that computers are asking us to do more and more things in their ways. Computers are controlling us!!!