A Singularity
I brief thought.
A person born within the age of cinema has the opportunity to experience a personal tipping point. This point is defined as when there have been more movies created after you were born than before. For the people before the first movie, they share the point when the first movie was released (which is, mostly likely, a disputable date).
I was born in the eighties, so cinema had many years to populate itself. But I am quite confident that I will experience this tipping point, which I will semi-randomly call the moment of mass. Heck, it may have happened already. I would even believe that a person born today could experience their own moment of mass.
But at some point, it seems to me that barring any extensive space colonization or indefinite life extensions, it will be impossible for a person to experience their moment of mass. There will be too many movies in history to counter with new movies. This moment would happen after the release of a specific movie, as mentioned most likely some time in the future. No person born after this movie would experience a moment of mass, and I will call this moment the cinematic singularity.
Of course this is a little fuzzy, since someone born right before the cinematic singularity would probably never experience their moment of mass, since they probably wouldn't live long enough. And it seems that you couldn't define the moment at the time. In the practical sense, this moment is more a time period than a singular point in time. BUT I don't particularly want to think about this detail right now.
So now there are two questions.
When is your moment of mass?
When is the cinematic singularity?
This also applies to video games (I probably passed my moment of mass in this regard when I was 4), soda brands, fast-food hamburgers, whatever.
I think there were other aspects I was thinking about, but I don't remember*. I'm sure this is an old thought, and I've probably heard of it before and forgot about it.
A person born within the age of cinema has the opportunity to experience a personal tipping point. This point is defined as when there have been more movies created after you were born than before. For the people before the first movie, they share the point when the first movie was released (which is, mostly likely, a disputable date).
I was born in the eighties, so cinema had many years to populate itself. But I am quite confident that I will experience this tipping point, which I will semi-randomly call the moment of mass. Heck, it may have happened already. I would even believe that a person born today could experience their own moment of mass.
But at some point, it seems to me that barring any extensive space colonization or indefinite life extensions, it will be impossible for a person to experience their moment of mass. There will be too many movies in history to counter with new movies. This moment would happen after the release of a specific movie, as mentioned most likely some time in the future. No person born after this movie would experience a moment of mass, and I will call this moment the cinematic singularity.
Of course this is a little fuzzy, since someone born right before the cinematic singularity would probably never experience their moment of mass, since they probably wouldn't live long enough. And it seems that you couldn't define the moment at the time. In the practical sense, this moment is more a time period than a singular point in time. BUT I don't particularly want to think about this detail right now.
So now there are two questions.
When is your moment of mass?
When is the cinematic singularity?
This also applies to video games (I probably passed my moment of mass in this regard when I was 4), soda brands, fast-food hamburgers, whatever.
I think there were other aspects I was thinking about, but I don't remember*. I'm sure this is an old thought, and I've probably heard of it before and forgot about it.