Computer technology has already completely revolutionized graphic design.  Old-school drafting tables have been almost totally replaced by desktop PCs and graphics tablets like the DigiPro WP8060.  It’s easy to see why, too:  A large amount of printing and publishing is done digitally these days, and it’s more efficient and practical to draw and edit directly on your computer screen than to bust out the art markers and digitally scan everything into editing software.

It really makes you wonder, though:  What mind-boggling works might the Old Masters have created if they’d had access to the DigiPro WP8060?  It this technology makes it possible for me to superimpose the Vice President’s head on to a ninja’s body pretty seamlessly, what might Leonardo DaVinci have produced with it? 

Might Leonardo have used his stylus to paint the Mona Lisa’s divine features on top of a digital photo of his subject?  Might Michelangelo have created a Sistine Chapel ceiling covered in Flash animation?  Would Andy Warhol have created Photoshopped images with more mass appeal than previously dreamed possible?  We’ll never know.

Not until I can get this blasted time machine working, anyway.