<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Nov 1, 2010, at 4:32 PM, PJ Manney wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">I don't care how many portraits of Stein you're going to make in your<br>nanofabber. The history of the original in the Met, held in Picasso's<br>and Stein's hands and so important in art history, can't be replicated<br>and will retain its value<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Art will retain its value only as long as people retain irrational and downright contradictory views regarding the original and the copy, but as there is no chance such people will survive the singularity there is no chance original art with its high value will survive the singularity either. </div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark</div></body></html>