Comment by iambateman

The most interesting cultural artifacts have always been media…in large part because that was all which has survived since antiquity, excepting a few lucky buildings.

But this is not necessarily inherent to media.

Perhaps the most interesting, long-standing cultural artifacts we are currently creating are not in the realm of media at all.

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Even though movies are undoubtedly dominated by a few stars, I don’t think the legacy of our time will be the movie Legally Blonde 2. When people think about the period 1950-2050, they will write more about the rise of companies which were capable of mass producing intelligent and what people did with them.