The main off-the-cuff response I have is that the tail will wag the dog. The deep conversations the presenter seeks for the future will be had by a small subse

The main off-the-cuff response I have is that the tail will wag the dog. The deep conversations the presenter seeks for the future will be had by a small subset of youtubers/netizens etc. But the neat thing is that those conversations will be public, discoverable, and joinable. So aspirants to depth will be able to find peers. Fragmentation is inevitable, and will increase, but so too will the awareness of fragmentation. Each deeply engaged person will know that their area of engagement is just a pocket, and island, and they will know they can traverse to other nearby (or distant) islands as they please. This is all true currently, and will probably get more true going forward. Side note/example: Deep thinkers about the news do not really watch network television any more, except as a window into what shallow thinkers are consuming. ------ notes Digital Ethnography "Toward a New Future of 'Whatever'" http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=230 http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=230 "New media might be changing the search for the authentic self." 13:56 "Not you, but this." 18:36 "They all speak video." 29:57 "They wouldn't state these things if they felt they already existed." ~30:17