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Why We Are Here => Hardware & Technology => Topic started by: rcjordan on February 01, 2013, 01:39:02 PM

Title: Netflix puppets
Post by: rcjordan on February 01, 2013, 01:39:02 PM
Great read.

http://www.salon.com/2013/02/01/how_netflix_is_turning_viewers_into_puppets/
Title: Re: Netflix puppets
Post by: ergophobe on February 01, 2013, 08:46:30 PM
What the article doesn't really address is the ability of this data to be fed back to writers and producers and force them into data-driven writing, essentially turning *them* into puppets. This would worry me a lot more if I were a screenwriter or producer, than as a consumer.

Quoterather than where we would go by ourselves if left to our own devices
- now that stuck me as funny