Tyler Cowen: belief

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…Yes, right, but that’s what they titled it. It’s just, whatever. What do you think is the normal cadence of seminal . . . Oh, how about this? Would you agree that the same feels true for books now, for novels or whatever, that we have the perception of there being not as many tent-pole seminal kind of game-changing experiences as we used to. I think rock ’n’ roll and painting are easier examples. Rock ’n’ roll maybe is at a peak of new creation in the ’60s and ’70s. There’s still plenty of good material. The old music is with us for free. It’s a great world to live in. But say, the difference of music from 1966 to 1968 is unbelievable and immediately noticeable. Music over a 10-year period today sounds more or less the same, in a way it didn’t back then, and that’s a shift. Is there any kind of comparable shift in gaming? Well, there’re more games than there have ever been, and there’s more music than there’s ever been.…

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