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Three cases for why social tokens offer a whole new possibility for collectives to succeed in ways they never have historically:

A personal metric: how much of the day is spent doing things out of obligation rather than out of interest? 

Like the rest of the United States (well, almost), the American podcast business experienced a sudden disruption over the past week as an increasing proportion of the American populace was made to sharply limit their time outdoors as part of the effort to slow the coronavirus pandemic.

We're entering the Third Wave of Digital Media. Wave 1 ➱ Monolithic Media Wave 2 ➱ UGC Wave 3 ➱ Multiplayer Media A (scruffy) theory ⇓

It is one thing to think with a pamphlet, another to think with a newspaper, yet another to think with a televisual image, and still another to think with a meme.

But it’s still possible that future apps like Bedford become the way we segment our relationships in the future. Facebook might morph into a general catch-all for people we know or follow, but our most meaningful interactions might occur in a virtual space where the audience knows us outside the screen, says Bayer.