Thread by @kevinmarks

#TDC19 @herbkim: Halvor Vislie came to our attention by making videos that simulated storm surges

#TDC19 @tfguniverse: My kids spend all their media viewing time on youtube - I grew up with Pippi Longstocking who rode into a small Swedish village on a horse with a monkey on her shoulder

#TDC19 @tfguniverse: When Astrid Lindgren came up with Pippi Longstockings - we din't have the word "Disrupter"

#TDC19 @tfguniverse: "I've never tried that before, so I should be able to do it" - Pippi Longstockings

#TDC19 @tfguniverse: We used the Unreal game engine to create a live television production

#TDC19 @tfguniverse: In Norway viewership of traditional television has dropped by 50% in 2 years

#TDC19 @tfguniverse: In the USA, the number of people terminating their cable TV subscriptions is projected to reach 50 million by 2021 - of those who have, more than half say they miss nothing

#TDC19 @tfguniverse: Fortnite we're aware of, but its makers don't think of it as a game. On Feb 2nd DJ marshmallow held a concert inside fortnight - 11 million players and 7M more watching through streams

#TDC19 @tfguniverse: for Riot Games we made a synthetic band from four game characters and put them on a real stage

#TDC19 @tfguniverse: any technology you bring to this market needs t be live capable - live content generates a bigger audience than anything else [is that true? the biggest YT videos are in the billions, not the millions cited for live]

#TDC19 @tfguniverse: we're coming to the point where we can create anything - we can fake a plane crash in a live environment;

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#TDC19 @tfguniverse: with digital humans we can make anyone say anything, anywhere now - we need to be very careful how we use this now

#TDC19 @herbkim: I hear from tech journalists who want to get out because they end up rewriting press releases all the time - Dan Lyons has mocked this for a while

#TDC19 @realdanlyons: having been at the first two thinking digital conferences, and being here this morning, I have been impressed by the interdisicplinary people talking here

#TDC19 @realdanlyons: the 1st year I came, I was doing a blog pretending to be Steve Jobs, and I had to follow Aubrey deGrey saying how to live forever

#TDC19 @realdanlyons: I took the idea of "secret diary of Steve Jobs" from Private Eye

#TDC19 @realdanlyons: I wanted to do a book about why the world sucks, and miserable books sell in England. In America they all want books called "why winners win"

#TDC19 @realdanlyons: Startups are now a multi layer ponzi scheme, where you keep losing money until you go public and make money for the first investors

#TDC19 @realdanlyons: The head of HR for netflix just wrote a book about how firing people randomly is great becaues people rarely sue

#TDC19 @realdanlyons: Effectively a lot of these companies are dumping to kill incumbents - Netflix is dumping content to kill incumbent media

#TDC19 @realdanlyons: Silicon valley got hijacked around 2000 by a new breed of VCs, of which Peter Thiel is the best example, who are libertarians who burn things down

#TDC19 @realdanlyons: VCs have it easy - they get it wrong 90% of the time and still make money, work kids to death, and then stick your retirement for the bill when they go public

#TDC19 @realdanlyons: my last book was called "disruptors" and was about me failing at a startup - the Polish translated title was 'Fakap' - which is a word they took from English