Steven Johnson has an excellent long read coming up this weekend in the NYT Magazine. It’s available online now. Its title says exactly what it’s about: The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t. In short, Napster was supposed to be a harbinger of doom for all creative talent as piracy and digital boogeymen were going to mean the end of any viable revenue streams in the creative industries. Steven explores digital implications for music, movies, books, and television in a pre-Internet c...
