Signature imperfection

This Brian Eno quote works its way through my feed sometimes, so I’m putting it here so I don’t forget it:

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”

―Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices

I can’t remember all the times I’ve added grunge and grit or glitched a letter, added noise and a displacement map, chromatic aberration, misprinting, scuffs and dust, halftone, benday dots, looked at how xerox and risograph textures break up. All in pursuit of that beloved “error” or imperfection of past print and screen mediums.

At one point experts avoided these errors; now we have experts in putting them in.

What are today’s imperfections to be simulated in the future?