The book 'Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations' by Clay Shirky published in 2008, proved more prophetic than typical of the management predictions genre.
In 2020, now that we do have 'everybody' online armed with powerful devices (not many could have predicted tens of millions of phones with 4K video recording) the availability of tools for making professional quality content is not a limiting factor.
To take just one example, a fan of Roger Federer can post his longest Wimbledon final;
Aggregate his best tweets annotated with own commentary;
Or, become a part of his emerging post-tennis celebrity brand.
Even write long essays like David Foster Wallace did.
Complete with footnotes:
The human beauty we’re talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings’ reconciliation with the fact of having a body.(1)
David Foster Wallace on Roger Federer
With our platform, creators can conjure up almost any kind of post - combine original writing, social media embeds, audio, video, and even live events. They can define usage rules from among three simple choices - free, unlock-for-followers, and paid - and also share on their social media of choice or directly with their followers.(2)
The footnote in this post is merely to show off the capability to handle complex essays, academic papers (no mathematical notations), and whole books. In David Foster Wallace's original essay there are a whole NYT article worth of them.
Support for native Audio, Video and Live-streaming Events coming soon
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