Culture April 4, 2023 Forget AI—We Need More Clip Art We used to scoff at it, but in an age of relentless commodification, it now seems like a democratizing force.

Microsoft first introduced Clip Art with the release of Word 6.0 in 1993. ... The inventory of Clip Art was very limited at first, with just 82 illustrations from which to choose.

Microsoft announced that it is eliminating clip art libraries from its suite of Office productivity software, and replacing it with Bing Image search. But the iconic illustrations may live on.

A viewer looks at a work at the Contemporary and Digital Art Fair in New York City, May 2019. cadaf.art The idea of the “ sharing economy ” has been a buzzword for over ten years.