Description: Music biz insights about tech, sustainability, and the pandemic.
This week I’ll be speaking about ethics & web3 at an event hosted by JUMP , an accelerator for the European music market. While I’ll make sure to dive into topics like energy use, economic inclusion and the tyranny of structurelessness , the invitation also got me thinking about how the web3 provides more ethical frameworks for our networked future.
First, back to fundamentals. We live in a networked reality. This is different from the channel reality of mass media before the internet. Messages and information traveled through channels, linearly or bi-directionally, through media but also distribution channels in the case of physical information carriers (e.g. CDs). It wasn’t piracy that was the real shock to the music industry: it was the transition from channel reality to network reality.
Networked reality implies data can travel freely through networks. Memes are an important part of the culture that has emerged from these networks. The remix is the internet’s language .