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Hypothetically, you could imagine that a long voyage might need a decent Netflix library, and that new media production might not be feasible en route -- perhap
by Osmium 6y ago
Hypothetically, you could imagine that a long voyage might need a decent Netflix library, and that new media production might not be feasible en route -- perhaps this would help maintain a common language?
- Johnny555 6y agoFor a long enough voyage that significant language drift may happen, then I think some accommodations for the arts will be necessary, including creating movies or other entertainment. The old Netflix library will become less and less relevant to the voyagers -- how will someone who was born on a ship just like their parents and grandparents find any entertainment in an episode of Seinfeld or Friends when they can't relate to anything in the show? But by the time such a voyage is possible, content creation will likely be entirely virtual, so wouldn't need much room on the ship.
- jltsiren 6y agoThe crew will produce new art and new entertainment, like any society before them. However, the new productions will be constrained by the limited resources of the society. In some sense, the crew will be like a small group of survivors living in the ruins of a great empire. They see what their ancestors were capable of, but they are unable to replicate most of it. The legacy content in the old Netflix library was created by a society with the same technology but vastly superior resources. Its creators were often more talented than the best and the brightest of the current generation, and they certainly could draw on a much wider range of life experiences.
- Ekaros 6y agoCould also lead to things working other way. People on route would have more static language and the origin with larger population could have more divergent. English already have examples of this type of divergence.
- mLuby 6y agoWe already have (bad) ML-generated screenplays and (very short) deep fakes. I'm willing to bet in 50 years, software will be able to fully generate new episodes of TV shows, incorporating reviews of the previous episodes. Maybe everyone watches the same generated storyline so they can share the experience and talk about it, or maybe each episode will be tailored to your specific tastes. Point is that I doubt "running out of content" will ever be a serious concern for long-duration travel again.
- dTal 6y agoI'm confident in predicting that by the time software is clever enough to do that, TV shows will be as laughably outdated as a form of entertainment as court jesters.