"Nowhere in the recent revolution in the aesthetic of the computer have software engineers been more inventive than in the proliferation of various kinds of screen-savers. Although this misleading pedestrian expression suggests things as useful and unglamorous as safety goggles and glare guards, screen-savers are a fascinating new form of electronic poetry whose intricate, fluctuating patters have transformed the computer terminal into nothing else that a radical experiment in corporate art", schreibt der amerikanische Publizist Daniel Harris in einem brillianten Aufsatz über Bildschirmschoner.