> The main winners of these trends will be all of us consumers, with access to much better content.
Also, the best creators, who will use these tools to generate lots of great content and rake in its benefits.
Maybe yes. But I wonder. Take that example with disappearing local football leagues: what is impact for local communities? When everything is "centralized" to very best providers... Is best always best?
Are you talking American Football or the "actually using your feet" one (Soccer to us)?
Youth (American) Football is dying because the data on CTE and other debilitating injuries is clear and parents are less enthusiastic/willing to allow their kids to damage their brains.
Related to this quote, I don’t think we’re guaranteed access to better content. I think we’re guaranteed to more prolific cheap to produce content. Think Instagram era relative to Flickr era. Less about the art, more about fast fashion, or fast art, to capture your ever more brief attention. Certainly the next chapter of Tim Wu’s book, The Attention Merchants.
Maybe yes. But I wonder. Take that example with disappearing local football leagues: what is impact for local communities? When everything is "centralized" to very best providers... Is best always best?