Category: Eventness
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Time Travel, Analog and Digital
The right stimulus makes the present disappear, but how are analog and digital moments of time travel different? Typically, we imagine time travel as deliberate, if often improvisational: Marty jumps into the DeLorean to escape the bad guys; the Enterprise crew kidnaps whales from twentieth century California; Sam Beckett puts right what once went wrong,…
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Dueling Intelligences
How realistic is the idea that flesh and blood actors will soon find themselves performing alongside long-dead movie stars? Image created by DALL-E. Last time, I shared a microfiction (1,000 words or less), a short science fiction story called “The Only Living Boy,” about an actor, Tom, who is the only flesh and blood performer…
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The Only Living Boy, a Microfiction
What happens when real and virtual actors join forces in a new production of Shakespeare’s “Othello” on Broadway? As regular readers already know, I’ve been experimenting with microfictions, short SF stories (1,000 words or less) that help me explore and illustrate aspects of how our lives might evolve within digital transformation. Here, then, is another microfiction. Next…
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Keyword: Overfocusing
The Hollywood strikes versus what makes experiences special in the first place. This is the third piece in my keywords thread, but you don’t need to read anything else to understand this one. Bad products can yield positive experiences, but we don’t have useful tools to describe the difference because we tend to focus more on products…
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The Monster in My Ear
How an aural invasion led to a meditation on what makes experiences memorable. What are the ingredients for a memorable experience? One recent event has some clues. My scintillating compadre in nerdery, Benjamin Karney, and I have been friends since we were eight. A few days ago, we had a chance to catch up while he…
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The Anatomy of Delight
A Broadway show, a YouTube video, and a classic movie lead me to explore how surprise comes from novelty on the other side of familiarity… & why that’s actionable for creators and business leaders. People call things delightful all the time, but what exactly is delight? It’s not just pleasure, nor is it simply more…
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Keyword: Eventness
Watching the series finale of “Star Trek: Picard” was a lonely exercise because most of the value of experiences comes from sharing them. Regret seldom punctuates my day-to-day life, but if I had Prof. Peabody’s Wayback Machine handy I would jump back a few days and then schlep up to Seattle or down to L.A.…
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Frontiers of Live Experience
New forms of live media experiences are cropping up at different scales, but what are the differences between live and on-demand anyway, and why does it matter? Since the arrival of the VCR and DVR, home video, VOD, podcasting, and streaming, the last few decades have shifted our media consumption from live shared experiences in…
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2007 Post about a new “Artistic Middle Class” plus Web3 in 2022 and beyond…
My first blog was called “Mediavorous,” and it’s long gone and therefore hard to find but for the noble work of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Lately, with the rise of Web3, I’ve been thinking about an old post from 2007, “Yes, box office is up this summer, but don’t get comfy“, which I’ve re-published…