I suspect this tool will be crushingly minor. We already know we can get text, audio, AV and code from point A to B, or points A through Z. We know there are and will be different business models for it, tending towards the free (post-copyright, post-jobs). We know the box it lives in is changing shape.
Is there anything fresh we can do with the Bit? Books will become more "multi-media"? Ho hum. Gaming and social networking kind of altered the social/antisocial balance. Everything else has been about making the already common commonplace (rolling blogs, Twitter) or easier (Spotify).
Creativity could move from artist-fan hierarchy to become a communal flux, but I honestly see words as a roadblock to that rather than the flow. Write, stop, read, stop, comment, stop, return comment, stop, take offence, stop, etc. Or: analysis, stop, packaging, stop, assessment, stop, absorption, stop, territorialisation, stop, usurp or concur, stop, paranoia versus schizophrenia, stop.
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The Bit is Dead
Date: 2010-01-26 01:24 pm (UTC)Is there anything fresh we can do with the Bit? Books will become more "multi-media"? Ho hum. Gaming and social networking kind of altered the social/antisocial balance. Everything else has been about making the already common commonplace (rolling blogs, Twitter) or easier (Spotify).
Creativity could move from artist-fan hierarchy to become a communal flux, but I honestly see words as a roadblock to that rather than the flow. Write, stop, read, stop, comment, stop, return comment, stop, take offence, stop, etc. Or: analysis, stop, packaging, stop, assessment, stop, absorption, stop, territorialisation, stop, usurp or concur, stop, paranoia versus schizophrenia, stop.