{"id":3196,"date":"2015-04-22T13:18:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T20:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2015-04-22T13:18:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T20:18:47","slug":"sleeping-through-a-revolution-technology-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2015\/04\/sleeping-through-a-revolution-technology-and-culture.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sleeping Through a Revolution&#8221;: Technology and Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;ywu4fbbeaZ4xnIPum8dfcpIbDyG5zWSP&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>ONE of the clearest and most powerful descriptions I&#8217;ve seen about the place where technology, culture and economic forces meet is in a lecture USC&#8217;s Jonathan Taplin gave not long ago. He&#8217;s transposed the speech into a piece for Medium called &#8220;<a title=\"Taplin's &quot;Sleeping...&quot;\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@jonathantaplin\/sleeping-through-a-revolution-8c4b147463e5\" target=\"_blank\">Sleeping Through a Revolution<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taplin is especially good on the big picture, and on the way Silicon Valley &#8212; built largely through public funding &#8212; would eventually be taken over by safety-net-shredding libertarians of the PayPal mafia.<\/p>\n<p>This is from the opening:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Because I spent the first 30 years of my life producing music, movies and TV, this question matters to me and I think it should matter to you. So I want to explore the idea that the last twenty years of technological progress\u200a\u2014\u200athe digital revolution\u200a\u2014\u200ahave somehow devalued the role of the creative artist in our society. I undertake this question with both optimism and humility. Optimism because I believe in the power of rock and roll or movies to change lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Taplin is an interesting guy who produced Scorsese&#8217;s <em>Mean Streets<\/em> and worked with Dylan and The Band in another life.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got an overdue review to write today so will have to leave it here for now. \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/220px-Mean_Streets_poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/220px-Mean_Streets_poster-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"220px-Mean_Streets_poster\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/220px-Mean_Streets_poster-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/220px-Mean_Streets_poster.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;ywu4fbbeaZ4xnIPum8dfcpIbDyG5zWSP&#8221;] ONE of the clearest and most powerful descriptions I&#8217;ve seen about the place where technology, culture and economic forces meet is in a lecture USC&#8217;s Jonathan Taplin gave not long ago. 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