It is this aspect of new  art that Kenneth Galbraith 
recommends to the careful study of businessmen who want to 
stay in business. For in the electric age there is no longer any 
sense in talking about the artist’s being ahead of his time. Our 
technology is, also, ahead of its time, if we reckon by the ability 
to recognize it for what it is. To prevent undue wreckage in 
society, the artist tends now to move from the ivory tower to 
the control tower of society. Just as higher education is no 
longer a frill or luxury but a stark need of production and 
operational design in the electric age, so the artist is 
indispensable in the shaping and analysis and understanding of 
the life of forms, and structures created by electric technology.

     The percussed victims of the new technology have 
invariably muttered clichés about the impracticality of artists 
and their fanciful preferences. But in the past century it has