In this version of the universe, every consumption is actually an act of co-creation. Everything anyone consumes, be it food, movies, books, drama– is impacted and altered by the consumer's thoughts. That is why two people could watch the same game and have very different opinion of what happened there. Depending on the consumer's expectation, the food would alter its taste.
It was all good at micro-levels like this, until some people learnt how to hack the system to their benefit, sapping the consumer's creative energy into making their work easier. Big Movie screenings were made simultaneously across halls, with very little real footage inside, harnessing the expectation of all the first time viewers to sew together the whole movie in the first run. The more people who went to see the movie, more details were added, sometimes even altered in a version here and there— meaning people had to wait for months to get the blue-ray version of a film, as enough people had to contribute their creativity and expectations for all the details to be put in place.
Streaming content online changed the game, with popular releases hitting millions across the globe at once, meaning more diversity in the content generated. The less popular titles would take far too long to buffer, as it had to extract it all from the few viewers tuned in.
Torrents literally broke apart the content, books, drama and movies into thousands of homes, sitting and seeding on the laptops, always in touch with the owners energy, even if she is not watching it, piecing together the next best seller, and they would wonder how these content just "spoke their minds".
Dhaka
August 2021
It was all good at micro-levels like this, until some people learnt how to hack the system to their benefit, sapping the consumer's creative energy into making their work easier. Big Movie screenings were made simultaneously across halls, with very little real footage inside, harnessing the expectation of all the first time viewers to sew together the whole movie in the first run. The more people who went to see the movie, more details were added, sometimes even altered in a version here and there— meaning people had to wait for months to get the blue-ray version of a film, as enough people had to contribute their creativity and expectations for all the details to be put in place.
Streaming content online changed the game, with popular releases hitting millions across the globe at once, meaning more diversity in the content generated. The less popular titles would take far too long to buffer, as it had to extract it all from the few viewers tuned in.
Torrents literally broke apart the content, books, drama and movies into thousands of homes, sitting and seeding on the laptops, always in touch with the owners energy, even if she is not watching it, piecing together the next best seller, and they would wonder how these content just "spoke their minds".
Dhaka
August 2021
