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Schools charging $50,000/year or more (Brown, NYU) have value propositions that have been rendered untenable overnight. The elimination of the university experience is similar to SeaWorld without killer whales. Yeah, we get it … free Willy, but I’m not paying $450 to see otters and penguins. Also, we’re not paying $54,000 for Zoom classes.
Scott Galloway • Post Corona: Higher Ed, Part Deux | No Mercy / No Malice
André Chaperon
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Tom White on Substack
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He was absolutely right about the benefits to what he called “aggregators,” particularly the e-commerce platforms selling digital entertainment: He accurately saw that, unburdened from the costs and risks of carrying physical inventory, a platform like Amazon or iTunes was suddenly free to offer an unlimited assortment of ebooks, songs, and other d... See more
Marina Krakovsky • What Everyone Got Wrong About ‘the Long Tail’
By unbundling the newspaper, the Internet atomized news. The fundamental unit of news transitioned from an entire newspaper to a single article.
David Perell • News in the Age of Abundance - David Perell
Researcher Simon DeDeo on the three eras of information history:
The premodern/archaic era, when most information was generated by non-human phenomena like seasons, weather, drought, flood, hail, lightning. “The gods”.
The modern/postmodern era, when most information was broadcast by a small number of information “sellers”, and consumed by a large