Buckminster Fuller

There was a section in this article regarding nature vs. science that brought me back to another article called The Sincerest Form of Flattery. Regarding my previous post to that article, I felt that technology was running at a faster pace than nature. Because we depend on technology, we are moving just as fast and not acknowledging the natural course of speed. It is true, however, that humans are enduring successfully through the advancement of technology. The only problem is that when tasks become easier, the economy starts to take a shift. For example, Photoshop is supposedly releasing a new version called CS5. On Youtube, the company demonstrates some new 'nifty tricks' of CS5 that cannot be executed via other versions, making the work more effective and quick. Does this mean that everything we have learned in previous versions was just a waste of time? This may demote graphic designers' credibility as clients can potentially become their own designers.