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We enjoy media by ourselves, but we also *use* media to communicate. Am I being spoken to by the piece of media, OR is the media speaking for me? In this era, the latter is increasingly more relevant because of the ability to share the extra context around the media (the fandom). It’s not that the piece of media has to have a particularly salient... See more

“Imagination is often referred to as a sort of solo activity — authors, artists — but what we’ve found is really key to creativity is that it’s a collective imagination process. It’s the magic of creating together.”

In order to imagine where the future is headed, let’s first lay out the three main steps of connection building to examine how the physical and digital worlds fare at each:

• Discovery : you find someone you want to meet, or that person finds you 


• Connection : some initial contact is established


• Connection strengthening : further interactions

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Co-creation value adds. 1) When you're stuck with creating something, your co-creator nudges you because they're not going to be stuck on the same thing as you are. So no more writer's block, creative block, etc. They will jump in to push the creation into a version that you could have never imagined. 2) The editing process is much, much faster

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