p2pnet - rss feed: The network of social creation
p2p news / p2pnet: "What happens when everyone is uploading far more than they download? If everyone is busy making, altering, mixing and mashing, who will have time to sit back and veg out? Who will be a consumer?
"No one. And that’s just fine. A world in which production outpaces consumption should not be sustainable; that’s a lesson from economics 101. But online, where many ideas that don’t work in theory succeed in practice, the audience increasingly doesn’t matter. What matters is the network of social creation, the community of collaborative interaction that futurist Alvin Toffler called prosumption. As with blogging and BitTorrent, prosumers produce and consume at once. The producers are the audience, the act of making is the act of watching, and every link is both a point of departure and a destination."
What a horrifying thought!
It’s an out of context lift from an article written by Wired Magazine executive editor Kevin Kelley, re-published in Australia by the Sydney Morning Herald.
Say no more.
Or read the rest here.
November 14th, 2005 at 9:59 pm
I’d feel like an ass to plug my own work(so i wont), but p2p emule/bittorrent lets me spread my stuff about a ka-jillion times faster and more efficient than just pimping it out in forums/word of mouth/ pestering webmaster’s to review it.
once the cartel’s finally get complete controll back over all distribution of every and anything,it’ll be back to plastic wrapped cardboard cutout jackoff batter that keeps the sheeple people happy and dumb.
November 15th, 2005 at 12:07 am
People are lazy. There won’t be any such revolution. The End.
November 15th, 2005 at 12:17 am
Go right ahead. Plug it. I don’t mind people telling other people about what they’re up to. I just don’t like adverts dressed up as comments.
Cheers!
November 15th, 2005 at 11:01 pm
yeah, i agree — i think people who release their work for free on p2p networks (through creative commons etc) have some leeway to promote it, because they aren’t trying to sell a product per se.
of course you don’t want to comment off-topic but this is pretty off-topic already anyway, so…