--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "ezra buchla" <ezra.buchla@...> wrote: > >> at the same time, i think in recent years i've started seeing some of > the fallout of that ubiquity in the form of shorter and shorter > attention spans, shorter and shorter fad-cycles in "underground" > music, more derivation, less actual originality. By the way, that sounds like a total contradiction. If people have shorter attention spans, that should foster change quicker. If fads are cycling faster, that would be because of more originality. How could the same unoriginal stuff keep entertaining people with short attention spans? Short attention spans should make culture evolve more quickly. And short attention spans of consumers would be a good thing for creators of entertainment content, since it means that, inspite of the tools being democratized, consumers' short attention spans prevent them from having the patience to create their own entertainment, thus, they must rely on obtaining their entertainment from people who's attention spans are long enough to be able to create content.
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Re: music economics
2008-08-10 by zoinky420
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