"There are, however, particular and important ways in which science is likely to continue to exert an influence on the artistic world.  One strong probability is an even greater reliance on scientific tools and techniques as aids in the creative process.  Future painters may do their preliminary sketches in color on electronic "slates."  Choreographers may animate stick figures by push button.  Authors may employ mathematical analyses which warn that a work in progress suffers from too much repetition.  Playwrights may utilize geometrical theories of plot structure.  The theatrical producer with a new show for Broadway may find out-of-town tryouts more costly and less instructive than the use of a closed-circuit network that tells him precisely when his audiences laugh, gasp or tune out.  However fantastic, if not repugnant, many living artists may find such ideas, their successors will almost certainly prove a more receptive breed.  They may create in strange, untraditional media, but there is no reason why the best of them should not inspire and entertain as fully as did a Bach or Shakespeare in times gone by."