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Hmm how big would a single extended universe have to be to fully occupy the entertainment lifetime of a median consumer (across all passive and interactive media? Let’s say 80y at 2h/day and 3 rewatches/playthroughs each = about 20k hours. Doable. Media Singularity.
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Once you consider tech in the pipeline this is not out of reach. Procedural generation, AI, synthesized actors, formal methods for plot generation, some Fortnite like cheap time... You could have an ersatz Matrix a person could live in within a decade if you started now.
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FOMO would probably lead people to try more than one such grand narrative, so you could get away wit less material for each of them. Although I guess once people choose their "religion" they'll get more stable and might want to go deeper in a particular one.
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Right, but people clearly don't want that since they're constantly looking for "more movies like X" and not finding what they want. Curious to see what the equilibrium looks like though.