Inside Photoshop Response
I found the author's discussion of "treating an image as a collection of elements that can be changed independently and re-assembled into new images" to be interesting, in particular the analogy that is drawn between this method of image creation and modern software development. Being about Photoshop, this discussion could not be had without modern software development; that software development went on to allow image manipulation that inevitably followed the same creation patters as the software. This relationship is easily seen elsewhere in Photoshop/coding, as in the mutual uses of copying, undoing, use of math/functions, etc... This sort of relationship between old tools and the new tools they allow for can be seen elsewhere. The assembly line not only allowed for efficient production, but also put an emphasis on distance and separation between parts and processes. The car, the tool the assembly line allowed for, did the same thing for human life. It certainly made our lives more efficient, and it also spread everything out, separated our work from our home, our parents from our siblings. This, of course, is simply pointing out the tendencies in human innovation (different inventions are often going to make improvements in the same direction), but it's still helpful to notice that it is happening and draw implications.
