This is an interesting piece of animation. The last bit is particularly important–how will we make our livings in the future if the reality is that more will be freely shared?
I’m not saying the author is right–that the future is what he proposes–but its potentiality is something we should think about.
He’s not wrong. A friend of mine asked me yesterday what the “midlife crisis” is all about. I told him that for me it has meant discovering that the essential me has been tucked away for 50 years and is beginning to emerge. Scares the hell out of me and most everyone around. It also inspires me and the peole who really love me. Peeling away the pyramid (represented at “the corporation” in the video) gives us all a chance to discover our essential and infinitely creative selves. The results are going to be good for us and for the world.
Unfortunately I think this is a naive concept of the present day (let alone, future) world. We live in a world where people are openly sharing their thoughts, but most of the thoughts being shared on the web are about the last nights “American Idol”. We live in a very litigious world, where if you have an idea and tell someone, then that person profits from it…you sue him or her. We live in world that is more and more defined by what we own. Right after Hurricane Katrina, when the government was handing out checks to help those in need…those in need were spending the money, not on the necessities of life but on plasma TVs and breast augmentation (not everyone, but some did).
The Internet was created so those in the scientific fields doing research could easily share their thoughts, but today it is a means of entertainment (and a lot of that is porn). We aren’t truly sharing our thoughts; we are entertainment fodder for someone who got tired of watching “America’s Funniest Home Videos”
There is some good out there…but with the good there is crap. We can’t all be poets and scholar…. except on the web, where we can act like we are.
Remember when you were young and your parents told you to share your toys? How many did? How many took that toy back as soon as their parent’s back was turned?