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15 years ago, Kevin Kelly (Editor of Wired magazine) and Brian Eno (ambient music guru and super-producer) published a list of “unthinkable futures” - probabilities we tend to dismiss without thinking - in the Summer, 1993  issue of Whole Earth Review.
Their intent was less to correctly predict the future (thus the silliness) and more to [...]

 

Ambient electronic musician Robert Rich has penned a great response to a piece by Wired’s Kevin Kelly that suggested that musicians should strive for 1000 true fans:
I agree strongly with your basic thesis, that artists can survive on the cusp of the long tail by nurturing the help of dedicated fans; but perhaps I can [...]