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by Brian McCallister.
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New keynote, attention economy stuff. Think of the world as a MMORPG
called "Western Culture". There are three levels, 1) Feudal, 2)
something else (Market/Money/Industrial) 3) attention economy. Grr,
speaker is good, moves fast, hard to take notes. Level is of game,
not of player. Interesting analogy. Going to go pay attention.
How much of this attention economy stuff is really a stage of
industry maturity? Hollywood started focusing on stars how long
after (not necesarily as time, but as maturity level possibly?)
movies got started did the industry being driven by stars emerge?
How about corporations and big-name capitalists? I wonder if it is a
factor of the industry becoming complex enough that in order to
manage it people abstract out totems which become associated with
people (stars) or companies (stars) or whatever serves as the focal
point of attention for the movement.
When we talk about complex things we need representative entities so
they emerge as the field in which the complexity grows hits a point
where it is A) sufficiently complex that the majority cannot
comprehend it all, and B) enough people care about the field that
there is a majority of non-specialists paying attention. Anyway, I
will shut up, but I think there is no economic phase shift occuring,
but there is certainly a growth in the engineering industry, and
possibly the science industry.
Interesting that I use "industry" there. Anyway, time to shut up
again, Dyson is starting =)
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