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FEATURE | MEMBER PERSPECTIVE
The End of Design Thinking?
Simulation will replace design. The technology is new, but the strategy is as old as human history.
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Peter Pawlick
08•06•24
MEDIA SCOOP | INTERNET 2025
Axios was Late. You heard it here first.
We noticed this little feature from Axios about AI boyfriends. It reminded us of a perspective from Orchid Bertelsen that predicted this feature when everyone else was obsessed with AI sex bots.
The AI Boyfriend Business is Booming
As seen on Axios
07•24•24
AI Boyfriends Are Definitely Happening Companionship is going to be a huge service model in 2025
Orchid Bertelsen
COO, Common Thread Collective
04•22•24
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Weekly Provocation: is Gold Zone the solution?
Gold Zone is an innovative broadcast released in an on-demand world. the experience of watching Gold Zone is dumb – we mean that literally – as it is not designed to respond to individual audience interests. In other words, it is what it is, like it or not.
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FROM OUR MOST RECENT GROUP CHAT
How are people watching the Olympics?
Everyone is talking about the improved ratings but there are many members who are wondering if this is just another sugar rush that is not sustainable.
WELCOME TO THE COMMUNITY
Two New Members
Issue #004
Fans are the new free agents
ON_Sport dives into the last stronghold of the rapidly changing world of professional sports — the fan experience. Unlike other media verticals, the fan experience has been largely insulated against disruption; live sports have been one of the last bastions of linear broadcast media, a vast and mature market where regional relationships drive market activity and predictable consumer behaviors.
This stability is facing a triple threat of unstoppable disruption: the unbundling of ESPN, the rise of online gambling/fantasy, and the memification of highlights. These forces are resetting fan expectations for how they consume the game, what matters most to their experience, and where business opportunities lie in an uncertain future.
The intergenerational transfer of fanatical devotion of a local team is going to fundamentally change in a new media and digital landscape, but the love of the game will remain. How will that love be witnessed, monetized, and mediated in an uncertain future?
The
secondary
market
issue #003
HAS OWNERSHIP
FALLEN OUT
OF FASHION?
Exploring the relationship
between fashion and
technology and the evolving
landscape that is the
secondary market.
The fashion industry has a strange relationship with technology.
Why does the Fashion Industry treat tech like a seasonal trend?
The secondary market is creeping up on the luxury market.
How might AI-driven entertainment redefine our relationship with anticipatory content?
AI Forecasting in Fashion has a Big Sustainability Problem.
AI forecasting is a noisy guess masquerading as an objective analysis — and manufacturers know it.
ISSUE #002
GOOD
ARTISTS
COPY,
GREAT
AIs
STEAL
Issue #002 examined how creativity, ownership, and distribution are
being impacted by the growth and mass adoption of AI and its impact
on the business of entertainment.
DO CREATIVES
KNOW WHAT CREATIVITY IS?
Our event set the stage for a lively, engaging debate over a private dinner and drinks in the Hamptons with ON_Members and specially invited guests in the entertainment, media, and tech industries.
We Are Algorithim-ing Ourselves Into a Monoculture
Content has become mundane and unexceptional as a result of personalized recommendations.
The Copyright Fight for Digital Creativity
The US copyright regime has become an obstacle to this new era of innovation–and not because of what the law actually says.
Would you let Netflix read your mind?
How might AI-driven entertainment redefine our relationship with anticipatory content?
How Artists Turn AI Into Gold
AI has the potential to be an industry-disrupting tool for streamlining creative processes and getting projects out the door faster than ever previously possible.
