Wow! California is rising in more ways that one...First Nancy Pelosi and now the Baby Billionaires of Silicon Valley....the Young Guns story in the Rolling Stone / Valleywag caught our eye....the next revolution in communication is underway and most of you don't even know it. Licketyship, Facebook, YouTube, etc
News flash! Online is OLD media....it's so over. There are so many new ways people are getting media - mobile, pda, etc. And TV? A dinosaur.
An excitable feature, in the Rolling Stone hitting newsstands this week, on the 'Young Guns', an invite-only cabal of the most powerful under-thirty-year-old mavericks in town:
Together, they stand for a place where all Americans are intuitively, and seamlessly, online, where the Net is less a destination than an inextricable extension of our lives -- from the entertainment we choose to the social networks we form. Partly due to the combined efforts of the guys in this room, the long epoch of top-down culture -- when publishers, producers and DJs could dictate the tastes of a generation -- is fading faster than anyone predicted.
The more vibrant world is bottom-up, powered by the people. Make a video, put it online; download a song, remix it, put it back up; hack a computer game, share it with friends. With cheap computers, free software, broadband access and enough Mountain Dew, a kid with a dream can sit down and make it all happen. And while that's scaring the shit out of everyone who thought they understood -- and controlled -- the culture before, it's just plain obvious to the generation leaving them behind.
"What the old guard is missing is that this doesn't feel like a revolution to us," Ross says. "It feels like common sense."
News flash! Online is OLD media....it's so over. There are so many new ways people are getting media - mobile, pda, etc. And TV? A dinosaur.
An excitable feature, in the Rolling Stone hitting newsstands this week, on the 'Young Guns', an invite-only cabal of the most powerful under-thirty-year-old mavericks in town:
Together, they stand for a place where all Americans are intuitively, and seamlessly, online, where the Net is less a destination than an inextricable extension of our lives -- from the entertainment we choose to the social networks we form. Partly due to the combined efforts of the guys in this room, the long epoch of top-down culture -- when publishers, producers and DJs could dictate the tastes of a generation -- is fading faster than anyone predicted.
The more vibrant world is bottom-up, powered by the people. Make a video, put it online; download a song, remix it, put it back up; hack a computer game, share it with friends. With cheap computers, free software, broadband access and enough Mountain Dew, a kid with a dream can sit down and make it all happen. And while that's scaring the shit out of everyone who thought they understood -- and controlled -- the culture before, it's just plain obvious to the generation leaving them behind.
"What the old guard is missing is that this doesn't feel like a revolution to us," Ross says. "It feels like common sense."
