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The future is emotional

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Re: The future is emotional

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Post by EGreg »

Apocryphon wrote: post #25
EGreg wrote: post #10

If anything, we will see people preferring a lot less human interaction. People used to gather in salons to hear live music. Today we put earphones on a train to listen to music instead of socializing. If we socialize, we do it with other consumers, not producers. Compare photos of the 50s and now. Everyone was socializing outside. Today they are on fb with the phones mediating. The milkman doesn't come around anymor…

The use of earphones and iPods is for personal mobile convenience. Live music is still in hot demand as an activity, and in fact one way artists have adapted to loss of revenue from the end of album sales, has been to focus on touring and other events. People socialize with producers all of the time. Twitch streamers, Instagram influencers, YouTube stars- there is hot demand from fans to interact with their internet…

Demand to interact with a celebrity is not the same thing as demand to interact with a milkman, a paperboy or a waiter. And it is rarely satisfied in any meaningful way since the celebrity is a human being with limited attention. Whereas the delivery man can gladly interact with his customers but how often do you do that? In short - demand for the local interactions has been dropping.

Concerts today do take place, of course, but they are not the same as 20 people getting together in a salon for interaction and a musical soiree.

Re: The future is emotional

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Post by Apocryphon »

EGreg wrote: post #31
Apocryphon wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The use of earphones and iPods is for personal mobile convenience. Live music is still in hot demand as an activity, and in fact one way artists have adapted to loss of revenue from the end of album sales, has been to focus on touring and other events. People socialize with producers all of the time. Twitch streamers, Instagram influencers, YouTube stars- there is hot demand from fans to interact with their internet…

Demand to interact with a celebrity is not the same thing as demand to interact with a milkman, a paperboy or a waiter. And it is rarely satisfied in any meaningful way since the celebrity is a human being with limited attention. Whereas the delivery man can gladly interact with his customers but how often do you do that? In short - demand for the local interactions has been dropping. Concerts today do take place, of…

Sure it is. People normally go to concerts with friends. Demand for music festivals have also increased:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/music-festivals/77...

Re: The future is emotional

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Post by Apocryphon »

monksy wrote: post #29
Apocryphon wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The use of earphones and iPods is for personal mobile convenience. Live music is still in hot demand as an activity, and in fact one way artists have adapted to loss of revenue from the end of album sales, has been to focus on touring and other events. People socialize with producers all of the time. Twitch streamers, Instagram influencers, YouTube stars- there is hot demand from fans to interact with their internet…

> People socialize with producers all of the time When it's a one-way conversation, that's consuming.

It's less one-way when live-streamed Q&A's and AMAs are now possible.

Re: The future is emotional

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Post by chongli »

emersonrsantos wrote: post #11

Any sociopath/psychopath can game the emotional intelligence system by appearing to be whatever they feel they need to be, to get what they want, and it's not pretty.

No, not any socio/psychopath. Only highly intelligent ones. Average or lower intelligence individuals usually end up in prison. They aren't deterred by threats of punishment so they tend to have serious behavioural problems growing up. It takes a special sort of psychopath to defer rewards in favour of long term success in the absence of the usual punishments associated with child rearing.

Re: The future is emotional

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Post by EGreg »

Apocryphon wrote: post #32
EGreg wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Demand to interact with a celebrity is not the same thing as demand to interact with a milkman, a paperboy or a waiter. And it is rarely satisfied in any meaningful way since the celebrity is a human being with limited attention. Whereas the delivery man can gladly interact with his customers but how often do you do that? In short - demand for the local interactions has been dropping. Concerts today do take place, of…

Sure it is. People normally go to concerts with friends. Demand for music festivals have also increased: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/music-festivals/77...

Yes, with friends! As I said, consumers want to interact with each other, not with producers.

Re: The future is emotional

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Post by Apocryphon »

EGreg wrote: post #35
Apocryphon wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure it is. People normally go to concerts with friends. Demand for music festivals have also increased: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/music-festivals/77...

Yes, with friends! As I said, consumers want to interact with each other , not with producers.

Well, open mic nights are still available. Meetups are a way for producers to interact together with interested consumers. Conventions have surely become huge. There are still plenty of avenues for non-celebrity producers to meet consumers.

Re: The future is emotional

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Post by trendia »

skybrian wrote: post #8
kerkeslager wrote: post #4

Is there a job that doesn't require some emotional intelligence?

Factory worker? (Though for any job, it still helps to get along with people.)

Factory worker? Maybe... but there are a whole lot of conplex social interactions and relationships in the breakroom, far more than people expect.

Re: The future is emotional

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Post by EGreg »

Apocryphon wrote: post #36
EGreg wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, with friends! As I said, consumers want to interact with each other , not with producers.

Well, open mic nights are still available. Meetups are a way for producers to interact together with interested consumers. Conventions have surely become huge. There are still plenty of avenues for non-celebrity producers to meet consumers.

My point is simply that future consumers may not necessarily be looking for those interactions as the article suggests.

Re: The future is emotional

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Post by skybrian »

Mz wrote: post #28

I really, really, really hate it when they refer to things like taking physical care of the elderly as "emotional labor." Caretaking can have a huge emotional component, but this framing has serious inherent problems. Furthermore, art, fiction and music are things that can do a lot for people emotionally and psychologically, both the makers of such and the consumers. Yet no one ever seems to include those in these ri…

What are the "serious inherent problems" in calling it emotional labor?
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