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The Information Age Is Over; Welcome to the Experience Age

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An interesting thought, but the author doesn't offer enough specifics . The 'experience stack' didn't make any sense to me.

..into a status box, add metadata such as your location and select from a hierarchy of emotions for how you feel

He means list of emotions? Its not a hierarchy.

This is why I don't read TechCrunch. The quality has really gone downhill. It just seems like a place to pitch the latest ephemeral start-up or app.

Outlets like The Information [1] are more like TechCrunch of 2006 with thoughtful analysis and researched facts, not just latest app hype. It's $$ paywalled, but maybe that's what it takes to produce non-clickbait stuff today.

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/

It's insanely expensive. Like $400 a year.

This pile of horseshit is too bad even by techcrunch standards.

Agreed, but there is a kernel of truth in it -- the consumer Internet was first marveled at for "look what you can learn!" and now has moved toward "look how you can be entertained!" The Web used to be a library replacement... Now it's a movie theater replacement.

upvoted you but imo (+1, -1) respectively.

Instead of discrete concepts of "Information Age" --> "Experience Age", I think it makes more sense to reframe it as a continuum from asynchronous&text --> realtime&media. What's happening now with network higher bandwidth virtual reality is a continuation of "social networking" that's been happening since people exchanged letters via horses and ships.

Yesterday's communication was more symbols (text, emoticons, status) and more asynchronous (mailing letters, email, Usenet, BBS systems, etc).

Today's sharing is richer media... someone wears a GoPro while surfing, hiking, etc to record 4k hidef video... and less asynchronous, the hiker uploads it to YouTube within the hour.

Tomorrow, it would be 4k/8k 360 3D VR video streamed in realtime.

Both dimensions of text-vs--media and asycnhronous-vs-realtime can evolve independently.... AOL AIM chat is realtime but it's low fidelity text. IMAX 4k 3D video is hi fidelity, but sharing it is asynchronous (via movie theaters, BluRay, or NetFlix)

What the author calls "experience age" is those dimensions converging towards both richer media + realtime sharing.

Not sure how this article bubbled up to #2 spot. I don't find the argument credible and/or get it.

8 points within 30 minutes = second place on the front page, an article of questionable quality and substance from TC, I agree that HN's ranking algorithm could use some serious tweaking.

It's also interesting to see how younger articles with more upvotes are placed lower than this one (for example, the FSM Akka article at the time of this comment).

Edit: they seem to have fixed it.

We're also consuming differently: information is algorithmically curated (see Facebook News Feed, recent feed changes on Twitter/Instagram, etc.) Previously it was possible to see everything, the raw data so to say, now only a subset remains.

Probably because there is way too much information. If you have 500 friends and you saw everything, your news feed would be like rush hour.

Sensors are just part of the information age that's impacting people's life more and more. Also status updates are done on instagram, fit bit, GPS and other sensors, though I don't see enough reason to do these for myself.

I think they're trying to own a phrase "experience age" "experience 2.0" etc.

Choosing your emotion from a list of emotions rings a very dystopian bell for me.

Numerous articles in search results for "age of experience" suggests this as well.

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