What is a success in Graphic Design? 23rd november

My opinion on this issue is that Graphic Design itself is a success, everything around us is a piece of Graphic design, without it
  Everything would have to be painstakingly written by hand. Without designs process and ingredients - structure and organisation, word and image, differentiation - we would have to receive all information by spoken word. We would enter another Dark Age,a thousand years of Ignorance, prejudice, superstition and very short lifespans.
(Newark, 2002, p6)

Meanwhile other memebers of the group agreed that Graphics is successful by revenue, its how good you are and how your reputation is seen to others. Many current graphic designers follow designers of the past to influence their current work.

Another argument was raised on the concern that i perviously made, over time graphics has been a success itself but we have lost the traditional methods used in graphics and designers use the aid of computers when approaching thier work.