June 06, 2009

Mad Avenue Blues / The Times They Are A-Changin'

This wonderfully done takeoff of Don McLean's "American Pie" tells the tale of the death of media (as we once knew it).

Disruptive technology has a way of sneaking up on its victims—even when they see it coming. This little video, written and produced by L. McDuff, describes how technology is disrupting traditional media.

One thing that's been constant for many decades is that The Times They Are A-Changin'. It almost seems Bob Dylan could have been thinking about today's media industry and the story of its disruption as told in this video when, back in 1963, he wrote:

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

Thanks to Ben Kunz for pointing me to this video.

Topic Tags: disruptive technology, media

by F. Andy Seidl

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