No one earning a wage will be able to afford anything, only those who invest in the new technology. This new technology upper class will need art to fill the emptiness and give their lives meaning. This new age will be more like the distant past than like the twentieth century. Education, despite everything pols tell us, will be for the rich again. I doesn't take a high school diploma to see that people can't go on paying for the rising cost of college education.
Art is no longer a justifiable career.
Artists won't be coming out of college, they will be coming off the streets. Maybe we will go back to apprenticeships and guilds. And technology will also play a part in the art experience in the sense that we will be a technology proficient culture. It has to happen. The writing has been on the wall for a long time.