How do you kill the movie and TV industries? Or more precisely (since at this level, technological progress is probably predetermined) what is going to kill them? Mostly not what they like to believe is killing them, filesharing. What’s going to kill movies and TV is what’s already killing them: better ways to entertain people. So the best way to approach this problem is to ask yourself: what are people going to do for fun in 20 years instead of what they do now?
The custom concern for the people
Build up the monuments and steeples to wear out our eyesI get up just about noon
My head sends a message for me to reach for my shoes and then walk
Got to go to work, got to go to work, got to have a jobGoes through the parking lot fields
Didn’t see no signs that they will yield and then thought
This’ll never end, this’ll never end, this’ll never stopMessage read on the bathroom wall
Said, “I don’t feel at all like I fall”
And we’re losing all touch, losing all touch, building a desert
Modest Mouse – “Custom Concern”
(via npr)
Here we have the man who invented the personal computer, then the laptop. He’s now destroying them. That is an amazing life.
How did a 153-year-old magazine — one that first published the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and gave voice to the abolitionist and transcendentalist movements — reinvent itself for the 21st century? By pretending it was a Silicon Valley start-up that needed to kill itself to survive.
The Atlantic, the intellectual’s monthly that always seemed more comfortable as an academic exercise than a business, is on track to turn a tidy profit of $1.8 million this year. That would be the first time in at least a decade that it had not lost money.
Score another one for creative destruction.
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