There is a parallel between QWERTY and cryptoart, I think: we have a new technology, namely the blockchain, equivalent to the new technology of the office typewriter. We also have an associated set of technical chops, equivalent to WS&B touch-typing: namely, the linking of art with NFTs with a money value. And just as QWERTY exists to makes profit for a small number of people by manipulating human behaviour around a new technology, so does cryptoart in its current form. Everyone competes, the first to the prize and the last man standing win and everyone else loses, nothing has value unless it can be turned into money and the game is to collect as much of that as you can, which is the measure of everything and an end in itself.

And as we’ve seen from the story of QWERTY, when the game is to make money, people will invent profitable things rather than useful things. So, we need to change the game.