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It Really Is the 21st Century
by Andrew McCaskey
Slashdot Review Podcast
Thanks to some listener corrections on the links to Garageband.com for the past few days. I’m still getting the hang of this new edition of WordPress, along with some help on the IRC channel.
Mobile this evening, so I am a bit off schedule in this short week. I expect that a lot of folks are having the same problem, and it probably would have made more sense to log out for the entire week, and leverage not one but two company holidays that happened to fall in just the right place this year.
It’s a great summer to be paying attention. Took a quick look at YouTube today, along with maybe 2 million close friends. I did find the Cockroach powered Robot video ,along with about a half million others. With all the major media buzz, there’s going to be plenty more.
Combine that with the announcement of eefoof, a community based ” video creator shares the ad revenue” model at eefoof.com . Have to admit that eefoof looks like it does not have the bandwidth capacity. Yet. But hold on for a few months.
Add in something else that I’ve seen in the past week: about an hour and half of demo of Second Life by Beth Goza at Gnomedex, and I am getting a glimpse of the shifting underfoot that is going to lead somewhere.
And it is not just in the realm of entertainment and pastimes. Take those two events in combination with an book that I have been catching on Audible.com. It is called FutureShop by Daniel Nissanoff .
FutureShop describes the auction culture of “temporary ownership,” an endless cycle of consumption where each purchase is looked at not as an acquisition, but as a stopgap that will be auctioned off after its utility has been extracted, and the next bigger and better thing will be partially bankrolled with the proceeds won (at auction, naturally) from the last. He builds a convincing case: it’s been coming for ten years, and it’s going to be a big part of your life. First life or Second Life – your choice.
Bottom line on all this: I think we have just crossed over into the 21st Century. It’s not like it’s 1999 at all. Just took me a while to figure it out.
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