Writing for Wired, Steven Levy comments on the changing ways in which society is digesting video content.
“We are well clear of the world of television — where video meant sitting down in a living room and watching carefully scheduled, professionally produced ‘shows’ — and now are about to move from our more fluid, DIY and YouTube-infused paradigm into something different: an explosion of video as its happening now,” he writes.
Levy notes the proliferation of live-streamed events and the popular use of Skype services to boost his point of view that within 10 years, “more than half” of the video we see will be live streaming.
He predicts that “the next step is for everyone to make use of the tiny, high-quality HD cameras in our phones and our computers to routinely stream live to selected friends or everyone,” citing services like Ustream and YouTube as proof of a growing trend. There’s also Justin.tv, the upcoming Airtime, Socialcam and more.
The coming generation is likely to appear daily on some form of Internet-streamed video. “Fundamentally, 30 million Americans are five feet away from a video camera 24 hours a day. It’s never been that way before,” says Socialcam CEO Michael Seibel.
“An entire generation already is unaware that it was once thought of as a huge novelty to ‘be on TV,'” suggests Levy.
Writing for Wired, Steven Levy comments on the changing ways in which society is digesting video content.
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