93. Humans are unique in their capacity to notonly make tools but then turn around and usethem to create superfluous material goods-paintings, sculpture and architecture-andsuperfluous experiences-music, literature,religion and philosophy.

94. Downloading and consuming culture requires great skills, but failing to movebeyond downloading is to strip oneself of a defining constituent of humanity.

95. Even after the advent of widespread socialmedia, a pyramid of production remains, with asmall number of people uploading material, aslightly larger group commenting on ormodifying that content, and a huge percentageremaining content to just consume.

96. Even Tommasini, who had advocated Gilbert’s appointment in the Times, calls him"an unpretentious musician with no air of the formidable conductor about him."