turned Nature into an art form. For the first time men began 
to regard Nature as a source of aesthetic and spiritual values. 
They began to marvel that earlier ages had been so unaware 
of the world of Nature as Art. Each new technology creates an 
environment that is itself regarded as corrupt and degrading. 
Yet the new one turns its predecessor into an art form. When 
writing was new, Plato transformed the old oral dialogue into 
an art form. When printing was new the Middle Ages became an 
art form. “The Elizabethan world view” was a view of the Middle 
Ages. And the industrial age turned the Renaissance into an 
art form as seen in the work of Jacob Burckhardt. Sigfried 
Giedion, in turn, has in the electric age taught us how to see 
the entire process of mechanization as an art process. 
(Mechanization Takes Command )

    As our proliferating technologies have created a whole series