* Don't lock yourself into thinking that technology is the only way to
achieve wider culture, when all kinds of things like wars, alarums,
shacks, old books, and even fashions have achieved this in the past.

* Culture isn't a bunch of people going in the same direction, it's a
bunch of people freed from friction. To enact heterogeneity you do not
impose homogenous constraints. Joyce's gambit in Finnegans Wake gave
him less freedom to use different styles, not more.

* The most important thing about a Florence Effect is that it still
requires individual genius to get somewhere. The genius grows the
fruits; the Florence Effect just makes sure that the fruits are
clearly seen on the tree.

* Technological constructions prove to be orthogonal to growing
fruits, perhaps in a similar way to how when you build an art studio
many of the best painters will go out and paint plein air. That does
not mean that art studios are useless!

* One can also build an art studio in such a way that the very art
studio itself is a work of art. To do so, one might have to believe
that the art studio is going to be used in a certain way, but we can
easily imagine too that this is not essential.