Trigger Happy
One thing that was never foreseen by the early cyber-boosters of the 1990s was that in the long run, all the ‘new media’ institutions that supposedly disrupted the landscape – the tech giants, the social networks – would actually want passionately to become old media: specifically, television. Apple and YouTube are joining Amazon in the linear-narrative content game, jostling to compete with Netflix and the rest.
The videogame industry too increasingly aspires to be television. Not just
