HW 16: Joi Ito’s take on the future
After reading Joi Ito’s interview in Kline and Burstein’s Blog!, I realized he brought up many points throughout the discussion that I found very intriguing. For instance, one of his main points was that blogging enables the consumer to become the prducer. That is, people do not have to rely on restrictive and suppressive methods of obtaining information like that of the Big Media. Ultimately the Internet world of blogging has become a place where the average joe and any citizen can become a creator, a producer, a publisher. Afer all, there are no external affiliates and advertising agencies paying bloggers. In fact, bloggers often pay money themselves to set up their websites just how they want them to look. As a result there are no outward infleunces changing the way bloggers represent themselves and discuss the things they want to discuss–its an open converastion.
Even though I support and agree with mostly everything Joi Ito said (for example, how he believes the emergence of the non-mainstream is inevitable), I can’t help but disagree with his notion that folk music and art will be comin back. Though it may be true that it will be more and more costly for future generations of aspiring musicians and actors to become successful and famous, they are still going to take their losses (which will be due to new and free methods of dispensing CDs and DVDs), and end up poppung up as the next big thing all across the country…just as they always have.
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