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Information wants to be free, but it also wants to be expensive. In an ideal ecosystem, audiences would enjoy the universal accessibility of media, and creators would enjoy more pricing power and stable returns on media which appreciates in value.
Zora • Zora Whitepaper
In under two decades, on-demand lightning-fast internet television had gone from an impossibility to a simple fact of life.
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
What’s coming into focus more gradually is how bad things are getting for those of us in the audience, too . Something that’s long bothered me and Erin about the hegemony of streaming is that if you do away altogether with physical media, you put yourself at the mercy of corporate accountants (who might decide there’s insufficient R.O.I. when it co... See more
Jonah & Erin • Streaming is an affront to God
Peer production over ad- and engagement maximization.
Stephen Gossett • The Internet Should Be More Like Wikipedia
This search engine transformed the way people worked, entertained themselves, and learned.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
internet. Landline TV, restricted for years to one or two channels in a few developed
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
requires innovation to handle the sheer volume of media.
Ray Velez • Converge: Transforming Business at the Intersection of Marketing and Technology
As media scientist George Gerbner summed up: ‘[He] who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behaviour.’28