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I started to wonder what the next, next big thing could be. But I figured it'd be far more interesting to ask you guys what you think the next big thing in music, film, gaming, and wrestling will be.
Thus:
What do you think is the next BIG thing? It could be something to have a worldwide impact immediately like the iPad, or a smaller impact that changes the world subtly, like touch screens finally coming into their own with smart phones.
My BIG idea is creating a syndication for digital media. Podcasts / netflix / gaming / hulu / and so on. The thing I miss most about our On Demand world is the inability to really stumble upon something in progress that grabs your attention.
The WWE Network actually solved this problem with the live stream, and after catching The Ultimate Warrior Documentary went back and caught some of his matches and watched the doc in full because it was so surprisingly compelling.
Unfortunately a lot of content isn't like this. If you turned on the Shawshank Redemption sight unseen from a Netflix queue and never heard of it, it may not impact you the same way it did for many of us who came across it on TNT or TBS halfway through and found it intensely compelling. The same for Podcasts, the same for videogames, where outside of the increasingly rare demo and some brilliant app store stuff, (and the awesome PSN+) getting free games to discover and try out for free is tricky. There is no basic cable or Saturday night movie for these platforms, and it makes discovery something that requires effort, versus something that happens idly when flipping the channels.
So take note, Netflix, Hulu, and Podcasts, do what the WWE does and allow me to stumble across stuff as easily as possible, versus making me seek it out. Pandora / Spotify has this figured out pretty well, too.
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For pro wrestling, I think there's one, great, wrestling-related kickstarter that will happen sometime soon, where fans put money where their mouth is and support a company that is capable of putting on awesome shows WITHOUT the constant fear of losing their shirts. I don't want 'edgy' or 'experimental' like with that REALLY weird Wrestling Revolution Project, but a promotion that raises enough money to buy equipment, run shows, and can support themselves long enough to start turning a profit on their own.
Additionally the Kickstarter rewards could be awesome. Life-long passes / listening in on creative meetings / free merch, and depending on dollar value donated, maybe an on-screen role of some kind. Who knows.
What say you, Blobbers?
Bing Thing, huh?
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ReplyDeleteI suppose I could say I was doing a Patterson impression.
ReplyDeleteWhat a broad question.
ReplyDeleteMy answer is flying hamburgers.
Also, why would an on demand service like Netflix stream a network? Why would any on demand service do that? It invalidates the point.
The double-decker couch
ReplyDeleteI FUCKING LOVE THAT MOVIE.
ReplyDeleteYou sure were.
ReplyDeleteAnd after you got done having all that gay sex and winning fictional wrestling tournaments, you had an embarrassing typo in your headline!
What I mean by this is, how do you find bands you like?
ReplyDeleteRadio.
You listen to them on the radio, then check out their work in full.
How do you find a movie you like?
You stumble across it on cable or regular TV or HBO then watch it in full.
With Netflix, Hulu, and so on, there's no "LIVE" stream broadcasting content that you can stumble upon. If you had a series of interests you could check off, and have it playing one of I dunno, 6 million options they have available to you - you might stumble onto something you weren't expecting.
Simple, the next big thing is interfacing with computers without physical interaction like a mouse or a keyboard. Whether that's full voice-command or the system tracking your eyes or thoughts, basically all of our technology has relied on the same interface and it seems to be becoming quite a passe' way of doing things.
ReplyDeleteI get your idea, but people subscribe to Netflix because they can watch things on demand. Specific things. In fact, people ditch cable for streaming services because of the specificity.
ReplyDeleteI find movies I like based off old fashioned things like reviews and word of mouth.
This is the thing I love about the Xbox One. When I come home from work and can be like "Xbox On" "Xbox Bing Suits" it's amazing. Unfortunately it's like only 80 percent of the way there, so I have to sign in first, then it only gets it like 89 percent of the time, but the promise is so awesome.
ReplyDeleteHave you played Deus Ex Human Revolution? That game is all about how this sort of thing will change the world.
"Flying hamburgers" legit lol. So random
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely agreed about the Syndication for Digital/On Demand Media, in fact just the other day I was talking with some friends about why I still have a Cable subscription and it was for that very reason, the feeling of flipping around and discovering a movie or program that I might have missed originally and just dipping into it.
ReplyDeleteRight but word of mouth and reviews are from a critical standpoint. Here's an example: One of my favorite Bad Movies of all time is "On The Line" a stupid ass 90s comedy that's really fucking bad. There is NO WAY I would have watched this movie intentionally, but by stumbling across it I discovered a so-bad-its-good favorite.
ReplyDeleteThey're regenerating entire organs now, that's gonna be huge. The next HUGE wave of medicinal research/funding is going to be towards anti aging research
ReplyDeleteHey Farva, I remember reading about a thing called Medi-gel. Is that for real?
ReplyDeleteif it is I'll tell you about powdered alcohol.
Dude, people are dropping cable because of bullshit movies like that occupying space on cable channels which is why they go to on demand services. Not everybody can tolerate garbage.
ReplyDeleteNah I'm not really a video game guy I barely got a 360 a few weeks ago and it was just so I could actually run the Network since they don't give a shit about the original iPad for some reason.
ReplyDeleteI like the stuff I hear about the One though, although I could live without it scanning bar codes in my living room.
Paul Meekin leaving the BoD for good.
ReplyDeleteThat's the stuff that stops bleeding, by crwating a fake ectra cellular matrix, right? I remember reading about that over Xmas and it seemed legit. It'll be years before that's ever allowed to be mass produced tho
ReplyDeleteVoice commands will never replace typing simply because most people can type faster than they can talk.
ReplyDeleteDude, how do you define people. Your expierences do not denote the average, nor do mine. But I'm CERTAIN you've stumbled across a cool movie or song on the radio before and wanted to check it out. If you haven't, I'm sorry.
ReplyDeleteStay tuned ot WhatCulture.com for a feature about it.
ReplyDeleteAnd play Human Revolution. It's SUPER heady shit.
Ah, well the FDA approved powdered booze the other day. Hooray!
ReplyDeleteAlso I just went to the Doctor and the guy was blown away how much lower my blood pressure was after DDP Yoga and such. I said "I owe it to pro-wrestling" and he said I should probably switch to insanity work outs. I smiled and happily declined.
In med school I remember doing research for a bio chem class to see if it'd be possible to create a pill that would stop hair growth for awhile. How awesome would it be not have to get a hilarious for like a year
ReplyDeleteHis actually do denote the average. Most people are tired of sifting through nonsense to find what they want and this far outweighs people that are willing to pay hundreds of dollars a month for cable just to randomly stumble on a movie or something.
ReplyDeleteI really want to plug my website here but don't want to end up in the spam filter... so everyone look at the site in my bio for more on getting rid of cable/streaming.
ReplyDelete"Not everybody can tolerate garbage."
ReplyDeleteYou obviously can because you're in this thread
#TooEasyToLetSlide
Obviously for writing and stuff (which is probably where some sort of thought reader will come in) but I mean for every day stuff, use your gas card at the pump and rather than typing in your ZIP you just say it, stuff like that.
ReplyDeleteIn five years we went from not having touch screens to half the time I try to touch my desktop thinking it's an iPhone, eventually the same thing will happen with typing in general I think.
The next big thing? Lowering college entrance standards due to dwindling enrollment, which in turn, is due to extreme stupidity. Everybody gets a degree!
ReplyDeleteYou better hope my WWE guy gets back to me soon then.
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I am so posting your phone number on a gay sex message board or something.
ReplyDeleteWell, I tend to gauge my opinion of things on facts. Like for instance, companies like Netflix exploding in recent years.
ReplyDeleteAnyone see that 60 minutes where Amazon is going to roll out droids that deliver your shit through the air?
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ReplyDeleteYou win this round.
ReplyDeleteTotal nonsense, the insurance liability of flying products around like that has to be astronomical. Not to mention that all the big stories about that just so happened to be on television at exactly Thanksgiving, Amazon's biggest time of the year.
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ReplyDeleteI can BARELY tolerate garbage.
ReplyDeleteI did... I don't see it ever coming to fruition, but man I love to see companies thinking outside the box like that.
ReplyDeleteWhat's that from?
ReplyDeleteInspector Gadget
ReplyDeleteI HATED that show as a kid. I HATE the bumbling hero archetype. Inspector Gadget wins the day through no effort of his own.
ReplyDeleteAt least Maxwell Smart occasionally stumbled into competence.
PS - the other QOTD I was working on was "I told you not to tell me that"
Good point. The thing I didn't get was how they'd prevent theft. How would they stop people from just following around a droid they saw in the air and taking the shipment whenever it landed
ReplyDeleteHawking thinks humans being able to fuse consciousness with some form of technology is only about 1000 years away. That's pretty big
ReplyDeleteThat could happen now. UPS/Fed-Ex drop off a package, drive off, and someone walks up and takes it. I'm not hope usually when something gets dropped off.
ReplyDeleteWell, I mean I suppose it would be even easier to follow the UPS guy doing the same thing, the difference being the drone can't leave your item with your apartment office or have someone sign for it.
ReplyDeleteKurzwell thinks that's happening next week.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely true. Never thought of that. Never have gotten anything stolen that way either tho
ReplyDeleteAmazon would just write it off anyway, you'd be amazed at how often they end up sending two out of a product due to theft, lost in the mail, people pretending they never got it, etc. I worked there for several years, I still am wholly unsure how the end up making money.
ReplyDeleteThe next big thing is when I return to the WWE as a part time attraction, even though I've been outspoken about how they are detrimental to the business
ReplyDeleteI never even thought about it but it's so obvious this is happening.
ReplyDeleteI did see that and I thought it sounded totally like bull shit. The liability on that would be off the charts.
ReplyDeleteI read (actually listened to on audiobooks) his "The singularity is near" and thought he was a loon. He's chief of engineering vat Google though so maybe not as crazy as I thought
ReplyDeleteAgreed. They just need to get the new wave of keyboards figured out for all this touch screen shit. I hate windows 8 and would use my tablet for everything if I didn't have to type with my thumbs only.
ReplyDeleteSmoke Pants ftw!
ReplyDeleteHe says 2045 we'll have all that.
ReplyDeleteGoogle Tactus Keyboard video.
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ReplyDeleteI don't think he's wrong,but his timeline over the years has always changed to try to fit in with his projected time of death. Dude reaaaaaaaaaally wants to live forever.
ReplyDeleteYea, you're right. He said 1000 years left to escape earth. Got them mixed up
ReplyDeleteIt would be great if you could just have people do all your household labor for you for free, for like 24 hours a day, and they just like live on your property and have to do everything you tell them. And if they were bad you could beat them or sell/trade them for another one. I'm not sure what you would call it but it feels like it could get over pretty big.
ReplyDeleteMy buddy and I were just talking last night about how funny (awful) it is that mankind never really cared much for building machines until we were told we couldn't use people.
ReplyDeleteWhat if you could like "acquire" attractive young women from 3rd world countries and keep them around only for sexual gratification?
ReplyDeleteWhy aernt night vision sunglass a thing yet?
ReplyDeleteI THOUGHT they said it would be over the entire country but don't hold me to that
ReplyDeleteSerfdom?
ReplyDeleteI feel like I remember that, but I was so busy laughing at the very idea of it that I didn't pay too close attention.
ReplyDeleteI'd be very surprised if it was more than a plea for free advertising, the CEO of Amazon has had offers for years and years to buy out FedEx and has said repeatedly he's not interested in being a shipping company. Things can change obviously but the infrastructure needed to fly robots safely about the continental airspace has got to be in the billions.
Why would I need night vision sunglasses? Unless I'm on the prowl for married women.............wait a minute.
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http://www.spritzinc.com
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