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A digital platform with some sort of interaction (clap, reactions, emojis, live chat with some sort of censorship) might adjust public spectacles to the new age

• saagarjha 6y ago
  It’s one thing to watch a video of a performance, and quite another to watch it live.
  • jaspax 6y ago
    This. Watching a live performance can be way better than watching a video... but watching a live performance over Zoom is usually worse.
• JohnBooty 6y ago
  It kind of has already -- Twitch, etc -- but whatever it evolves into online seems unlikely to support expensive and lavishly budgeted spectacles like Cirque. I feel certain live performances and sports with physically-present audiences will return, as that experience seems to fill some kind of deep-seated human need. (One I certainly share) But I increasingly fear that COVID-19 represents something like an asteroid-versus-dinosaurs event where, even though life continued, it looked drastically different. Perhaps it will be a good thing in the long run, but much will be lost.
  • luckylion 6y ago
    I share your belief that it will change a lot, but I'm less fearful about it. I believe that quite a bit of traditions and "how we do things" are mostly there because that's how it was done, not because they are still what people want. A major disruption makes that more obvious and asks the question whether we still want it the way it was before. Maybe we don't want e.g. theaters any more. They've had declining audiences for quite a while and are, at least over here, heavily subsidized by the government. That money could also be used on other things that more people care for. Starting anew isn't necessarily a bad thing.
  • atmosx 6y ago
    Me too. I talk to ppl and they're kinda waiting everything to go back to normal because <totally-crazy-conspiracy-theory> or the vaccine, but I believe that the effects of this crisis will be long standing and many things will ultimately change for ever.