2012-01-03, 12:41 PM
I find the corporate influence a good reason for this. This stagnation though, if you guys haven't noticed, goes beyond fashion alone.
The current generation of games has been FPS flooded for the past 10 years.
The movie scene is overrun with 'reboots' of series (Transformers, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Smurfs)
Music speaks for itself.
Whils the article has very good points at a macro-level influence. It fails to take into account the actual innovation itself since 1992: The internet and our connection to the rest of the world. Think about it, in the past, for something to really take off, it had to start in one area, win over just the people in that area. From there, like a slow wave, influence everyone else.
What can slow this progress? Dissenters of trends online as well as the ability to NOT see your trend of interest not taking off in other developed areas. In the past, you couldn't hear other people as loudly as you can now. A good idea needs time to grow on people before they can follow it willingly,but when there's such easy access to opinions rejecting it, those ideas get stomped down by crumudgeons trying to make sure THEY are on the forefront of all good ideas. After all, no one likes rejection and that's what popular culture is all about.
So yeah, in general, I blame people being insecure and seeing what goes on in TV/other parts of the world as well as people who complain about everything new. But only because our ability to see/hear the opponents of innovation is better than ever before. We're stuck with a ton of runners who won't take off blindfolded like we used to, but instead just kinda step forward, look to the left or right, then step back like a chicken the second someone even raises an eyebrow. Dissapointing everyone else who was ready to follow him or her.
The current generation of games has been FPS flooded for the past 10 years.
The movie scene is overrun with 'reboots' of series (Transformers, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Smurfs)
Music speaks for itself.
Whils the article has very good points at a macro-level influence. It fails to take into account the actual innovation itself since 1992: The internet and our connection to the rest of the world. Think about it, in the past, for something to really take off, it had to start in one area, win over just the people in that area. From there, like a slow wave, influence everyone else.
What can slow this progress? Dissenters of trends online as well as the ability to NOT see your trend of interest not taking off in other developed areas. In the past, you couldn't hear other people as loudly as you can now. A good idea needs time to grow on people before they can follow it willingly,but when there's such easy access to opinions rejecting it, those ideas get stomped down by crumudgeons trying to make sure THEY are on the forefront of all good ideas. After all, no one likes rejection and that's what popular culture is all about.
So yeah, in general, I blame people being insecure and seeing what goes on in TV/other parts of the world as well as people who complain about everything new. But only because our ability to see/hear the opponents of innovation is better than ever before. We're stuck with a ton of runners who won't take off blindfolded like we used to, but instead just kinda step forward, look to the left or right, then step back like a chicken the second someone even raises an eyebrow. Dissapointing everyone else who was ready to follow him or her.