Intimate Innovation

The immersive entertainments’ industry puts me in mind of a way of innovating that has some of the qualities of an intimate dynamic, but without the grit and pushback of the face to face. In this version of events

• reader and viewer participate in the involved narrative – they get lost in the plot
• there is a blurring of the distinction between fiction and non fiction  – often to the point of invisibility
• association – of people and ideas – is at the center of what happens
• this linking of people, destroys hierarchies – and in the digital world, destroys hierarchical taxonomies, through hypertext
• there is a blurring between learning and addiction

So, in some senses, we can see how intimacy destroys hierarchy