Applied Science 2023 Update
To those still subscribing to Applied Science (and for those just joining us): Thank you. We we crossed 1000 subscribers during the hiatus between Applied Science #8 and Applied Science #9. Considering all the distractions, media, and more active writers out there, I appreciate anyone taking the time to read my erratic ramblings. Thank you all, those of you I know and those of you I don’t.
We’re back for 2023. My plan is to publish monthly in the middle of each month (I missed all of last year due to some of the circumstances of my work and the birth of my first child).
This year, I’m trying something new. Each main article published will consider (however loosely) a central theme: Borderless intellectual property. I take this to mean intellectual property in a multimedia landscape where the wide availability of tools and media (audio, video, images, words) allow creators to engage in cultural collage and infinite ideation.
We live in the most expansive creative era in human history, an embarrassment of riches in terms of technology and access. It is also an age of great peril, one in which the rules of the old world (intellectual property as private property) collide with the realities of the new (intellectual property as building block for voracious creators). Boundless composability defines this time, in spite of the imaginative limitations of current legal regimes and some creator tools.
Throughout this season of Applied Science, I’ll also delve into how we at CreateSafe are building an operating system to help shape a new reality for creators.
In addition to 12 primary articles, I’ll probably still tinker with additional content on an ad hoc basis (as I have prior). Every primary post will continue the numbered format I established (for reasons that escape me) in 2019; non-primary posts will be labeled as such. There may be some case studies that expound on mainline articles; there may be random musical flights of fancy (like my tribute to MF DOOM); there might be a return to playlists and musical suggestions.
We begin 2023 with Applied Science #9, introducing a new product (Droplink) and some thoughts on the current listening environment. Applied Science #9 drops tomorrow (1/18).