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The rampant copyability of anything everything in Web 2.0 no doubt prompted the stampede to non-fungibility. ''Authenticity'' is in deep demand: no-one trusts experts anymore. ''Everything'' is ripped off. ''Everything'' is fake. Indubitability — [[certainty]] — is some kind of holy grail.<ref>But see our essay as to why [[doubt]] is no bad thing.</ref> | The rampant copyability of anything everything in Web 2.0 no doubt prompted the stampede to non-fungibility. ''Authenticity'' is in deep demand: no-one trusts experts anymore. ''Everything'' is ripped off. ''Everything'' is fake. Indubitability — [[certainty]] — is some kind of holy grail.<ref>But see our essay as to why [[doubt]] is no bad thing.</ref> | ||
But does this structural uniqueness — being uniquely, definitively ''not a duplicate'' — bestow some kind of intrinsic value ''in and of itself''? | But does this structural uniqueness — being uniquely, definitively ''not a duplicate'' — bestow some kind of intrinsic value ''in and of itself''? | ||
We say, “no,” all the above [[Notwithstanding anything to the contrary|notwithstanding]]. | We say, “no,” all the above [[Notwithstanding anything to the contrary|notwithstanding]]. | ||