In another CACM article, there's a photo of Carlo Sequin's Sculpture Generator. Cross your eyes and dig this! Anyway, the article is by Danny Hillis and makes the important point that just as digital artifacts reflect reality, so too is our reality increasingly being influenced by digital artifacts. The thing that I'll always remember on that point is the way that cars in the early 1990s suddenly transformed into bars of soap. Now the transformation is happening strikingly in the field of public architecture, where you have things like the Bilbao Guggenheim which is famously "neo" (-architected, -constructed, etc.).
Tina and I had a long conversation last night about whether any art created on a screen (specifically digital photography and video) was inherently crippled by the media. While I had to concede her points thatworking on a computer today is a cramped, RSI-inducing solo act, but I argued that if you look at something like the gesture interfaces in Minority Report, you can overcome all but the tactile feedback, and even that is probably somehow going to be overcome.