There are many people who live their whole lives in New York City but never bother to visit the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty or the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. As the title of this journal, Telepolis suggests, that is the very city into which, by means of the Internet we are now moving. It is a city in which there is no time for the timeless.
Art requires and demands attention.
In the first column in this series I suggested that this quality could even serve as a kind of universal definition art must attain to be art. But, especially on the Web, that removes art's supposed timeless quality completely. I magine a technically perfect World-Wide Web. Even if URL's change, somehow they leave traces that browsers can follow to the new sites. Since everything on the web is already digitized, in principle it can remain unchanged and accessible forever.