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For too long we've been suffering the tyranny of
lowest-common-denominator fare, subjected to brain-dead summer
blockbusters and manufactured pop. Why? Economics. Many of our
assumptions about popular taste are actually artifacts of poor
supply-and-demand matching - a market response to inefficient
distribution.
The main problem, if that's the word, is that we live in the
physical world and, until recently, most of our entertainment media
did, too. But that world puts two dramatic limitations on our
entertainment.
The first is the need to find local aud
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