Google's relevance - based search algorithms eventually resonated more strongly with users, plunging Yahoo
toward irrelevance as its raison d'être dwindled.
While John Armleder, Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach, and others carry on the spirit of Duchamp's intellectual wisecrack (while exploring issues of commodification, the doubtfulness of discernment, and the
irrelevance of the art / kitsch dichotomy, all addressed through a compliant stance
toward the marketplace), Gober bathes his urinals, sinks, beds, doors, dog baskets, armchairs, and other furnishings in murkier, more psychologically provocative waters, transforming his roster of everyday objects into an iconography of fundamental human experience.
A world - wide coalition of activist groups mobilized by the environmental movement could yield a very positive long - term outcome: an awareness of the increasing
irrelevance of human - drawn borders, the fading out of nationalism as a defining element of one's identity and ultimately an evolutionary step
toward more connectedness among human beings.
I absolutely do not believe that the MLS is heading
toward obsolescence or
irrelevance, but I do believe that the MLS as we know it today (900 - plus MLSs) is ripe for change.