WRONG:

Color
is
the new
Color

i agree with steven. there are a lot of colors we haven't seen yet, and there will be more all the time. vermeer never saw laser-light red. i'm working on a project (which may grow to include a lab artists can visit to experiment with donated color-creating equipment) exploring the expanding palette.
http://eriksanner.blogspot.com/2008/03/functional.html
http://eriksanner.blogspot.com/2008/03/blue-and-yellow.html
http://eriksanner.blogspot.com/2008/04/saw-color-study-last-night.html

i believe the growth of color creation capability adheres to ray kurzweil's law of accelerating returns. i bet if you plot relevant points from the development of pigments through history on a line chart, it looks like an exponential curve. artificial pigments have only been available for a "short" time (say a century). imagine not being able to use blue because it was too expensive - that's how it was for painters for hundreds of years. humans and prehumans (i believe) have been painting for hundreds of thousands of years with a palette drastically more limited than what is available to us (i'm just talking about reflective color not projectors or monitors or lasers etc.) right now the palette is exploding along with every other information technology - yes i believe color is information. but i don't believe information is color. i understand that artists are "painting" with "information" instead of color, but i think that's a different realm. there is a lot of visual work being made which doesn't need "information" (outside of color) which just couldn't have existed twenty years ago.

and that is going to continue. vivid colors will exist in five years which we simply can't create right now. i believe. i hope.

and i'm only talking about what we can see with our original eyes, the ones we're using today...