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Robin Sloan, The Future of Media? Bet on Events:

What if the mag­a­zine arti­cle of the future, the album of the future, and the novel of the future are all the same thing?

And what if they’re all events?

…The great virtue of events today, in the dawn­ing 2010s, is that their value seems durable in a way that the value of super-abundant copies of dig­i­tal media does not. They pro­vide “embod­i­ment,” to use Kevin Kelly’s taxonomy—and that’s some­thing you can still charge for.

…But the 2010s demand more than that.

Read the rest for ideas and examples, worth the time and thought..