End Coming for Movie Moguls ?

From: Steve Davies (steve365@btinternet.com)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 11:38:40 MST

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    Interesting piece here from John Farrell at TCS about the transformation of film making by new technology.

    http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-032403Cby n

    This kind of development (and related ones in the music and entertainment industries) has far reaching implications IMHO. It will eventually radically undermine the domination of discussion and argument by a small set of ideas (memes if you insist) that are disseminated by powerful centralised media. This will in turn have large knock on effects on politics and public debate. I think the initial result will be a huge increase in the quantity of what we already have but in in the longer term (next twenty years or so) the whole public argument should become much more pluralistic. One effect that will happen soon has already started with the internet, i.e. the emergence of distinct 'dissident subcultures' that reject substantial parts of received wisdom. Time to think about selling all those Time/Warner shares!

    Steve Davies



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