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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      My own writing, I’m happy to admit, is not “classic”. Much of it should be something else, like games, web apps, datasets with exploration UIs, ‘pedia entries etc. Text was just the minimum viable form factor because words are the cheapest prototyping medium for any idea.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      In the first generation internet, we only shallow-digitized everything. Hypertext is an artifact of sentimental shallow digitization that mummifies the “document” behind an essentially sentimental UI. We think we’re “done” with internet of text and moving on to “things”. No.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      In the second generation, boundaries of printed matter disappear, and the Gutenberg legacy gets unbundled, and atomized. Every worthwhile line and image becomes an independent addressable, linkable meme. The rest sinks into obscurity. “2nd gen native” content is *born* atomized.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      These generation labels are for convenience btw, it’s all happening messily sort of parallel. Third generation. New rebundled forms emerge. Early chaotic mashup and collage pidgins give way to true deep-digital creoles. Threads on twitter are a good example. Instagram stories...

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      Finally, the *meanings* of dead “content” start to come alive. This is deep digitization. The “semantic web” failed because we thought meaning was something dead and inherent, to be modeled. Now it seems it is a potentiality to be expressed and enacted contextually, like genes.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      Even our best visioning attempts, like the Diamond Age “primer” tech, seem impoverished and reactionary with respect to what is *already* happening. The idea of an advanced game world “book” for one little girl, with humans turking at the other end, seems dated.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      If this sounds all head-in-the-clouds visioning, you haven’t been keeping up with tech (including ironically cloud tech). Much of this has already happened in patchy ways. Every year blogging becomes a little less like writing, and a little more like “idea engineering”.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      All this frankly makes me ambivalent about writing in traditional forms like books or essays. It’s increasingly clear that these are a kind of Industrial Age larping. The thing that keeps me in traditional forms is mostly lack of skills/tools to go beyond, not sentiment 🙂

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    9. Used very good‏ @adamhump 19 Mar 2019
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      books are lindy.

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    10. Ankur‏ @ankurrsharma 19 Mar 2019
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      Lindy just means inertia of replacement is higher, not that it’s impossible

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      It’s also phenomenological description, not causal, so even applying terms like “possible” and “impossible” is a category error.

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