Scarcity forces synthesis.
- Scarcity forces synthesis.
- Collaborative synthesis, to be convergent, requires scarcity.
- Ideas have to compete on that territory to win.
- Today, media forks infinitely, and nothing converges at the level of society.
- Except Super Bowl
- There's no pressure to societal level convergence.
- All divergence, no convergence.
- Wikipedia is convergent because it's scarce.
- There's one Barack Obama article, and if you want some fact to be in it, you have to fight to make the case to everyone else to land it and keep it.
- Museums also have this force.
- They represent society's "official" take on a given topic.
- That means they're often lightning rods.