The Art Of The Unique : Uniqueness

The Art Of The Unique (TAOTU) : Understanding the gestation, composition and value of Uniqueness in the Information Age. This may lead to theories which identify, foster, assay or suppress potential Uniqueness, and how Uniqueness may transform during the Information Age.

In GeekSpeak, a "unique" object is explicitly identifiable by a set of attributes. Every Honda Accord has a unique Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) so in GeekSpeak, each car is unique. Do you feel that any Honda Accord you see is unique?

This is not a useful definition. A broader scope is needed; a context-driven, social definition, a definition for The Mind's Eye.

Let's build the definition of a unique object using terms from Thesaurus.com:

Is the object "different"?
Is the object "unusual"?
Is the object "unrepeated"?
Is the object "rare"?

but excluding terms of GeekSpeak or with connnotations of "good" or "bad", such as:

exclusive
solitary
lone
exceptional
best
unimaginable

This is a first draft, subject to revision, it should be more quantifiable. We'll test this definition in The Art Of The Unique : The Artificial. I chose this starting point because of aspects of the Information Age, to be identified later.