
Episode 279: Welcome To The Machine (Taylor's Version)
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The Nextness of Music
Eric Drought is a music history scholar and kind of like music history theorist. He traces this shift in how we consume music to when these platforms stop advertising themselves as basically like limitless libraries, right? Anything you want at your fingers is. And he calls this drive Nextness, which I think is really interesting. But the algorithms like purpose then is to serve us the next thing based on whatever information that it's previously collected about us.
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