The main reason text is hanging on is that it’s still too hard to make other media random-access and serially skimmable at the same time. Things like TikTok attempt to hit that balance of affordances with video but are forced to give up determinism to make it work.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1198701245747220481 …
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Here's Bret Victor's attempt to make video into "a skimmable, browseable, gistable form" http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/ …pic.twitter.com/Op9SLW0mRb
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Imo it's also an encoding/compression/transmission accuracy class of problem. Video always slower to consume, less nuanced and more easily misunderstood for me. The hyperlinked-short-videos thing helps, but still nowhere close to text for me.
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oh so 5secondfilms
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Actually, this seems like how some ppl I’m interacting w/ on construction sites in China watch TV (via services like aiqiyi). The shows are long and have narrative (but suck) - everyone watches only the best ~1-5min clips
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