<videovortex> A slightly less 'super' peer (Andrew Clay)

[gh hovagimyan]

Video is proliferating. Everyone has a camera.  Broadcast media is  
just one form.
I think of this time as "post-media" or more accurately post-mast  
media in which
The multiplication creates a discourse with MSM.   The next wave to  
come is much more interesting.
It's Augmented Reality, in which an information layer is superimposed  
over reality.
Video will be a component as will AR glasses. Right now Smartphones  
and touchpads form a temporary interface.
The network has gone from out there (internet) to closer in and is  
about to be integrated into reality. It's already
happening to some extent. Witness the amount of people walking or  
driving and texting.

Anyway, The question posed is what does that do to Capitalism?  The  
answer nothing. Unfortunately the world is
now in a system of Capitalist Feudalism where governments work for  
the corporations.  If you have a job in a corporation(or University),
you're privileged otherwise you're a servant or a peasant.  All the  
technologies are products. Wa are all born to be consumers.
If we don't consume we are useless. Information is a commodity.  So  
more inforamtion makes for a crowded and lively market.

On Jun 4, 2012, at 6:00 AM, videovortex-request at listcultures.org wrote:

> The theory here is simple -- it will be increasingly difficult to
> control and influence what audiences watch. Audiences will engage
> content that derives from the system's margins with greater frequency.
> The ugly middle will still remain dominant, but more leakage will  
> occur
> with the ideological system.