The NFT Has Changed Artists. Has it Changed Art? - The New York Times
Hardly at all.
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Hardly at all.
The company is undertaking a far-reaching effort to change how it works. For some, it is an echo of their early idealism and a vision for what the internet could have been.
Mention NFTs and people get all defensive. Self-proclaimed evangelists of non-fungible tokens say “it’s a generational thing”, meaning anyone who is shocked by the millions spent on cartoon images of an ape is simply old. The names of the NFTs seem to invite ridicule. Are collectors zombies who ape the actions of others out of sheer pandemic-induced boredom? Yet values...
When we think we understand something, we don’t see a reason to regulate it.
To digital natives, crypto as a path to financial security just sounds sensible.