screensavers are becoming unnecessary technology… authenticity and aura of a screensaver??

useless apps – similar category? rise of webapps versus websites for example

attention economy – end of passive consumption of screen time? commodification of everything digital

1. Precisely because authenticity is not reproducible, the intensive penetration ofcertain (mechanical) processes of reproduction was instrumental in differentiating andgrading authenticity. To develop such differentiations was an important function of thetrade in works of art. The invention of the woodcut may be said to have struck at theroot of the quality of authenticity even before its late flowering. To be sure, at the timeof its origin a medieval picture of the Madonna could not yet be said to be “authentic.”It became “authentic” only during the succeeding centuries and perhaps most strikinglyso during the last one.