For once, my son, Solomon Rothman, gets to say “I told you so”:  This is the official launch now of the new invention: Collaborative Digital Entertainment Production and Distribution: moviepals.org:

Sure you can do your own videos, virtual tours, but can you so this:

Or how about this:

To say I am proud would be an understatement, but think about how inexpensively we could create a travel series,  welcome video, a set of training films to communicate complicated technical, and/or selling concepts:

The audience will have a chance to participate!

Now, let me do for you what my Son has been helping me with for many years: let me give you an enlightened glimpse of the future:

Television and the Internet, Books, Audio, Journalism, News will all merge: the largest transfer of money and wealth in history was not the bailout, it was not the deregulation of the banking industry, it is not even the technological revolution: it is underway now, an has been for years already: and you do not even know what it is, do you?

Allow me to enlighten you: a little ground work is necessary:

At one time, a college education, a good upbringing were the best to an almost certain good job and quality life: now, as it was in the seventies, a diploma and some change (change would now be 4 bucks instead of 10 cents) would get you a cup of coffee, but not a job.

At one time, it became a cliche:

“It is not what you know, but who you know.”   Now I put to you that neither matters, if you are popular.

Once upon a time, the way to reach an audience was through the right channels: Doubleday and other major book publishers; the Associated Press; the Main Stream Media, the “Hollywood Casting Couch”; NO MORE!

What has changed:

Once upon a time, geniuses were not recognized in their lifetimes.  Now people become rich and famous before they are adults:

1. The speed at which things happen has accelerated steadily, it is a parabolic curve.  As much as I hate to admit it, it matches the premises in Revelations.
2. The split second decision; young people, unencumbered by the drudgery of a slower moving, more labor intensive time, can do five to ten things at once, WELL!  They make decision in a split second based sometimes on nothing but a URL or an email subject to click on.
3. Distribution has been, is being completely dis-empowered: money, breeding, upbringing, even location have less and less to do with education, access, opportunity to succeed…
4. Creativity is having a field day: this will continue: as people are more and more empowered without encumbrances, they are more and more creative, and, yes, productive. 

Now what has not changed:  the ability to win friends and influence people is more powerful than ever!

What to do about it:

1. Wake up and ‘smell the coffee’
2. Hurry up!
3. Educate yourself constantly, everything you thought you knew is outdated
4. Forget about retirement, you can sleep when you are dead, and that may not be for 100 years or more the way things are going!
5. Take care of your health: you are going to be a centurion if you do not screw it up
6. Give up your vices: actual creativity is more fun anyway, and you will not be able to compete
7. Build an audience, you have access, and it is easier than ever
8. Get a video: a video never has a bad day, never sleeps, does not eat, does not get a day older, and last forever, and that is more than I can say for you and I!
9. Discover yourself: who, where, how rich, and what you are no longer matters: what you actually can do, can contribute matters more than anything now (sorry professional slackers, just the way it is)
10. Do it now: what never changes: a quote from Rabbi Hillel: (born Babylon 110BCE-10CE in Jerusalem):

 ”If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”

Or, just put it off: you are probably too late anyway   It is not expensive, it is not slow, you can be anywhere, anybody, any age..

NOW WHAT IS YOUR EXCUSE?!

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