Manuel de Landa reading

"The computer with its smart software is killing the designer's authorship"! Sounds like a sentence from a cheap futuristic movie. But on the other hand-all sense of the discussion is laid around this nowadays phenomenon. It seems that today's designer (or architect) plays role of a "guider of the evolution of form"not a generator or composer. Controlling form's development ("designer does not specify every single point of the curve, but only a few key weights which deform the cure in certain ways"M.de Landa) is his initial duty. It can be partially true. But it doesn't frees us as a designers from having artistic flair, from understanding the nature and potential of the material. The computer is just a mean of the achievement of the purpose.
I was also impressed with such words as:"The genes guide but do not command the final form. In other words, the genes do not contain a blueprint of the final form"(M. de Landa). A balance would be a perfect decision. A hand and a pencil with the computer and smart software should be a projection of someones mind in the space.