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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (170641)4/17/2021 10:01:44 PM
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That's the laughable part of the sudden "realization" recently that that is true enough... that ANYTHING can be similarly represented... so the NFT craze, as a narrow new part of the idea of tokenization, is only the recognitition that as...

I should also point out that at about the same time as my participation in the digital IPO project was going down in flames... I was also a participant on the "team" working at preparing to enable Steve Jobs to return ot Apple to "fix" it... after it had fallen apart when he left it.. Apple back then about $2...

I pitched the idea that the return required some real innovation to shake things up... and, given my prior experience in the music industry, explained .how and why "music" was broken, and how and why digital technology could "fix" it... That became the IPod and ITunes...

But, I didn't want to fix "music" just to make Apple enough money to save it... I intended that the right way to do that... while making Apple money... was to also liberate the artists from the (far more then) oppression of the industry control by monopolies... generating a flowering of the arts that, in being enabled, would grow the market dramatically... Freedom is a better investment than oppression... which constrains growth... as a theme you should be noting in minr ? So what i pitched to Jobs was essentially both breaking apart industry standard packaging AND tokenizing songs while digitizing music and delivering it over the internet... disintermediating the music business... while making Apple the go to conduit for the revolution... which would then proceed to disintermediate... pretty much everything else.

Joibs understood the part of breaking an album or CD up into single songs... so consumers could buy the ones they wanted... not the ones they didn't. That mostly a pricing argument in resistance points... $1 is below the resistance threshold... $12 or $18 is not... so you'd make way more money selling for $1 than for $12... and that proved true. IPod and ITunes changed the music world. But, Jobs didn't like the idea of liberating artists... He wanted instead to use the power success would bring... to replace the oppression of artists by the industry... with the oppression of artists by Apple. He want to capture and preserve the monopoly.

So, Apple could have been tokenizaing digital art... when ITunes first hit the market...

And instead, Apple is today failing to innovate...being billed "the next Nokia" for reason... because Jobs lack of vision is imposed in the DNA that survives in the drones still there running things.

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