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My hope for social media was that it would enhance collaboration. It has not in my view. I still love its 140-character limitations as a releaser of creativity, but that is not what it has evolved into, any more than cinema was for the art film.
There's a joy in creativity frequently hidden by "production", or by making it other than for the sake of itself.
"Trending" is the meme du jour, but perhaps it won't be in 2027.
Here's a passage from the excellent book The Singing Neanderthals on collaboration as "enlarging the shadow of the future":
How does making music together help? The dilemma facing our human ancestors, and which continues to face us today, is how to ensure that cooperation occurs to everyone's mutual benefit, rather than pervasive defection, to everyone's loss. When Robert Axelrod described his computerized prisoner's dilemma tournament in his 1984 book the Evolution of Cooperation, he specifically addressed the question of how cooperation can be promoted into real-world situations. Two of his proposals seem to describe precisely what is achieved when people make music together. The first is to "enlarge the shadow of the future". By this, he meant making any future interactions appear relatively important when compared with those of the present. Making music together seems to be an ideal way of doing this because it is a form of cooperation with very little cost....Axelrod's second proposal is simply that "frequent interactions help promote stable cooperation". This can also be achieved by music-making, which is not only cheap to do but can be embedded into other activities. ( Mithen, Steven J. The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2007. 213)
There's a joy in creativity frequently hidden by "production", or by making it other than for the sake of itself.
"Trending" is the meme du jour, but perhaps it won't be in 2027.
Here's a passage from the excellent book The Singing Neanderthals on collaboration as "enlarging the shadow of the future":
How does making music together help? The dilemma facing our human ancestors, and which continues to face us today, is how to ensure that cooperation occurs to everyone's mutual benefit, rather than pervasive defection, to everyone's loss. When Robert Axelrod described his computerized prisoner's dilemma tournament in his 1984 book the Evolution of Cooperation, he specifically addressed the question of how cooperation can be promoted into real-world situations. Two of his proposals seem to describe precisely what is achieved when people make music together. The first is to "enlarge the shadow of the future". By this, he meant making any future interactions appear relatively important when compared with those of the present. Making music together seems to be an ideal way of doing this because it is a form of cooperation with very little cost....Axelrod's second proposal is simply that "frequent interactions help promote stable cooperation". This can also be achieved by music-making, which is not only cheap to do but can be embedded into other activities. ( Mithen, Steven J. The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2007. 213)
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