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On the Topic of Collectables

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

I recently read a comment about collectors that I found interesting enough to share here.

On reddit.com, hatetosayit commented:

Awesome, you’ve just demonstrated one of my theories as to why people aren’t buying movies anymore. The industry likes to blame piracy, but I think they’ve missed something.

Nobody buys a movie simply because he wants to watch it. You don’t even buy a movie because you will want to watch it again in a couple years. People who buy lots of movies aren’t currently watching all of those movies. So why do people buy movies?

It’s because they’re collectors. (more…)

A Novel Idea

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

books

I think it would be interesting to send an objectively good novel which no one has ever read to 5 different random email addresses. Set it to be delivered 2 years in the future, a paragraph per message. Would the receiving users recognize the greatness? Or would it be one of the great lost items of our world when it’s treated as spam?

Alternatively interesting would be to bury it in a time capsule and never reveal the locations. How long would it remain undiscovered? What kind of impact would it have when it was?

This is the sort of thing that keeps me up at night.