I think technology and culture are tightly interwoven. Culture shapes which problems we think are important to address, research, and develop new technology to solve. Technology often gives rise to the metaphors we use to talk about culture (I keep seeing articles about how everything used to be compared to steam engines, but now it's all compared to computers with metaphors like putting together a vitamin stack or the human mind being software while the brain is hardware or whatever.) I can't help using these metaphors because they're the predominant framework of the age I was educated in. I do wonder, though, whether I'll still be stuck on the same topics in 30 years.
Maybe this makes me a boring person, but I like having a framework to understand what I'm looking at, so I appreciate last-word art for that. First word art is interesting by definition, because novelty creates interest. But without hindsight, it's difficult to tell what's merely interesting from what's interesting and meaningful. I think this is why many artists fall into the trap of making art with cutting-edge tech purely to show off their mastery of the tech. I suppose a lot of the art which I am drawn to, including some work with neural networks, is a hybrid of first- and last-word art. The works use very new technology to approach ancient, memorable questions in a novel way.