Similar to how we have sharing economy. Where we take any service and connect people who have surplus resource to people who don't, therby eliminate the middleman and create more wealth for both parties.
Which led to all the AirBNB for Xs.
ADHD economy is where you take any service which was in a long format and just shorten the duration. So going from long format movies to youtube videos to TikTok. Or Books to articles to tweets. Extrapolating this what would be next? Short format sports, where the entire game is played in 30 seconds? We have already seen the trend with 5 day test cricket to One-Day to T20.
This is also a form of unbundling. Take the sum and chop it up into smaller pieces. Then use voting systems to bubble up the mimetic pieces among the chunks. This can explain the wierdness(higher variance) of TikToks as compared to Youtube videos.
Instagram Reels which is otherwise a bit copy of TikTok has one
groundbreaking feature different from TikTok.
Instead of the 1 min upper limit on TikTok, the upper limit is now 15 s.
What enabled the sharing economy is the internet's ability to create
globalized reputation systems and cut out the middle man.
What enables the ADHD economy? The low-friction, high throughput, always-on communication capabilities of a smartphone enabled world?
P.S: Great post! Provides good food for thought
The thing that enables the ADHD economy would be low overhead of context change. In 1850 you wouldn't walk a mile to your town library read 140 characters and then walk back. Or drive to a drive-in theatre watch a minute long TikTok and then drive back.
Today you can context switch to consuming that medium and then context switch back to continuing your daily life with minimal overhead due to the cellphone always present with you. This enables consumption of stuff in micro byte sized chunks.
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