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That's really funny now.
The idea that a million monkeys on keyboards could eventually create a novel has, indeed, been proven wrong. I don't think everyone is going to get 15 minutes of fame, either. Still, I do think the medium is the message.
As a former writer, editor and publisher, it is interesting to me to watch so called professionals now struggle to find something to say that people actually want or need to read or hear.
Two years ago I had access to the data who was reading what from a major wire service. It was scary. There were hundreds of articles written that were selected by almost no one. And it could never be proved, but I would guess most of those article in the flow that made print didn't get read either.
That content was king of nothing.
Gates said that "the very future of certain printed magazines is called into question by the Internet."
It is interesting to me that magazines have figured out the web better than newspapers. In fact, the magazine and web are the perfect print-online combo, each format serving readers and marketers in different way.
It always amazed me how few of the stories ever made it into print in newspapers.
I don't see how it is much different now - 30 years later - with the mainstream TV media. We have 5x as many news channels now, but we don't have 5x as much news. What we have is the same news repeated 5x as much.
On the internet I can look at thousands of newspapers and publications around the world and get perspective. If I watch CBS news all I get is endless repetitions of bad Kerry jokes.
The idea that a million monkeys on keyboards could eventually create a novel has, indeed, been proven wrong.
Sez who? :)
You've obviously not looked at a lot of fanfiction lately.
There's millions of people at millions of computers producing millions of items of fanfiction ... how can you be sure they will never come up with something worth reading?
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