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With all those fools going to bars and concerts, or running marathons, it is evident we still need to solve the problem of entertainment, as I argue in my new Bloomberg column. It is instructive to look back to the days of World War II. The U.S. government played a critical role in encouraging Hollywood to make […] The post Robert Browning and Ingmar Bergman in...

Outsiders and critics often think of YouTube and computer gaming as entertaining and quite superficial modes of cultural consumption.  I have increasingly moved away from that point of view, and to pursue the argument I will note that lately my favorite YouTube video is Magnus Carlsen doing 100 chess endgames in 30 minutes.  That is […] The post Toward a simple theory of YouTube...