One thing I never knew until recently was how much digital artists seem to depend on each other. Sort of like djs taking samples of each other’s music, photoshop artists put images and imagelets from every imaginable place, remixing them to new and unrecognizable shapes. Maybe it’s stupid that I never thought about this until [...]

(for the record i love google.)
EDIT:
article: Google’s Page urges scientists to market themselves
“We have some people at Google (who) are really trying to build artificial intelligence and to do it on a large scale,” Page said to a packed Hilton ballroom of scientists. “It’s not as far off as people think.”