Rather than leaving hands-on work to underlings, as many executives do at his stage, he continues to use new design and animation programs to generate creative products like print, digital and broadcast ads and websites.
Of course we still need manufacture: the creative industries themselves depend on the linked nexus of broadcast, recording and communication technologies not to mention the modern city which are indispensable to their growth.
It should be shaken awake by someone with the creative spunk of a Ted Turner, an innovative broadcast and programming pioneer and long a board member who could see into Time Warner's future but who has been silenced by this regime.