What David Bowie Got Right About the Internet in 1999

Jesse Damiani revisits David Bowie's 1999 claim that the internet was not an incremental tool but an alien lifeform reshaping how art is made, distributed, and experienced. He finds a parallel in today's generative AI debates and asks what is genuinely newly possible. To separate signal from noise, Damiani assesses four categories: automation and creative labor, augmentation and velocity, aesthetics and artistry, and convergence and emergence, weighing who stands to be most affected.