This kind of over-simplification of complex issues really doesn't do anyone any favours, even if it's supposed to be satire or humour (which I can't be sure about in this case). Technology has _always_ provided a platform for art - where do you think those guitars come from, or the paper you write on, or the paints that people used to paint on cave walls if we want to go back as far as we can?

People develop new things that can be used in various ways. Some of the ways are prosaic, some are creative. Someone develops a computer, and one person uses it to solve an equation, another uses it to create a digital painting - both of these things are both technical and creative. And as technology develops, it becomes more and more accessible to more and more people. I can use a piece of paper without understnading how it was made, just as I can use Photoshop without understanding the mathematics of its underlying algorithms.

This piece seems to spring from the same the-internet-is-killing-journalism mentality that has become more prevalent in recent times. Traditional journalism would be on much safer ground if it wasn't producing this kind of rubbish in a mainstream international broadsheet.