Dunebat

In summation: "Internet = end of innovation". Rather myopic prediction from Crichton (a self-described computer aficionado), wouldn't you say? Without the Internet to birth ideas like Netflix or YouTube, filmmaking would've likely gone stagnant years ago as the movie industry kept regurgitating the same old ideas via reboots/remakes/sequels. Yet, for all their faults, streaming video services like YouTube, Netflix, et al have allowed indie filmmakers to reach previously untold audiences with their art and to reinvigorate filmmaking with whole new ideas that wouldn't have been heard otherwise. In fact, I daresay the opposite has happened: instead of seeing the "top ten books, records, movies, ideas", we're seeing too many ideas. New ideas -- good and bad -- are all over the place now. Why create when fifteen people have likely already created the same exact thing and uploaded it to their blogs, Twitter accounts, or YouTube channels by the time you've written your first sentence? I'm sure that gets more than a little discouraging for some content creators at times. If anything, we're being inundated by too much data, not too little on endless repeat (and certainly not "the top ten" drowning everything else out or replacing genuine innovation).