If we ask Clay Shirky, he would say that, we coped up with industrialization with the help of Gin and we kept up with the accelerating pace of life, with 20 hours of Television viewing.
As some people fear, this continuous partial attention culture isn't going to drive us nuts and destroy our civilization. Instead, we would invent new art forms that would enrich our lives and keep us amused.
The curated Unprogram is one such Art form.
The Numa Numa guy is emblematic of the emergence of the Unprogram trend. The traditional 20-min shows are gradually displaced by interesting youtube clips shared in Facebook and Twitter.
Curation is being experimented in different angles, in the past year or so. Eventually, these two trends would merge in a happy medium, creating a new art form.
Rather than coping up with this information overload and fractured attention, we would celebrate it, with this Curated Unprogram.
But, we are not there yet. Television provides the looking-forward-to-ness and functions as a social object, ...in water cooler conversations. Appointment Television would not be supplanted just yet, if these two benefits are not offered by the new art form.
