FOR THE FUTURE
I won’t be thinking about platforms when I’m dead, and I’d like to think about them even less right now.
Recently I got to hear Kato share some wisdom she received from her time working with playwright Paula Vogel:
“…most playwrights, you’re not writing for your current generation. You’re not writing for your peers. You’re actually writing for the generation coming after you. That’s who’s going to pick up your work. That’s who’s going to have the energy for it. That’s who’s going to make things happen.”
Vivian Maier passed away in 2009 and her photography didn’t become widely known until months after she passed.
In my conversation with Ryan J. Downey, he explained how all the work he did at MTV News over 15 years was wiped out when Paramount Global took the archives offline.
The music blog I wrote from 2001-2008, the very foundation of my entire career, is gone now, too.
What do we contribute to future generations when all our work is erased from the internet after we die, or does it even matter?
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