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The Books
2003 · Film · short · 6 min
Directed by Yoshinao Satoh
I made an animation work with the theme of "book". The first half uses a "paperback book" and the second half uses a "mail order" free book. 1996, 8mm work.
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We're really mostly not.
AI's a big deal, but there's no reason to suggest that this makes any inroads toward unraveling self or consciousness significantly beyond what we get from books, movies, or perhaps more recently, video games.
What I really liked about it is how it forces publishing companies to truly make knowledge available for everyone. It's the direction music is going in this country, where individual listens are essentially a free public resource for anyone who pays a minuscule subscription fee.
Books and movies seem to be retaining pricing power for some reason. I feel like the ultimate reason behind this is that books and movies take a lot more time and attention to consume.
I know for me, I would be far more inclined to read and watch more of them if it were easier to break them up into chunks. Give me a specialized movie player that lets me pause and start movies by scene, make individual books and movies super cheap, sure, I don't mind paying cable-like fees for something actually useful and I'd watch movies a scene at a time by the dozen. Give me a feed reader that mixes in book chapters, in order, with my normal news feed.
Essentially, I don't want to waste time on crappy platforms. Just give me the damn content in a way that makes sense for me to use it. I may get to the point where my appetite for information is so voracious, I'll just mass pirate stuff and upload it all into a personal database so I can chunk it myself.