You can try different things on it. You can inbed yourself more deeply into the process of transmitting experience and information. I'm not pessimistic at all. You just have to understand the limits of mere technology. You can play most music on it.
Culture is devised on it.
It's just a tremendous amplifier. Okay, then, let's put several pianos in a classroom, like a third grade classroom, and expose the kids to the pianos and ask ourselves what is going to happen. Some of the kids will actually compose a little music. But, if you look at the history of piano playing, it took 200 years to work out an efficient technique. You have to teach a person to play piano, but just as you can't do it in a boot camp, you also can't do it in fairyland.