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Democratised Storytelling
by Michael Topic
Storytellers change the world, but the channels they depend on are owned by a handful of billionaires who decide which stories get told and which don't. This series is about changing that for good, and with it, what it's like to live in that world. It starts in Hollywood, where Michael Topic watched gifted editors and crew work in precarious conditions, while the rewards flowed elsewhere. Around the turn of the century, he and a small team set out to fix it with NeoPixSys: freelance collaboration, built-in rights protection, direct-to-audience distribution, and Mediex, a money issued for value created, not debt. It never shipped. The patents stalled. The world wasn't ready. Twenty-five years on, the idea looks bigger than video. What if there were a technical architecture that preserved human agency, dignity, meaning and joy, instead of squeezing every last drop of profit from the people the network is meant to serve? We've all watched enshittification play out: cu
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Democratised Storytelling - What was NeoPixSys?
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! How do you bring a revolutionary idea to life? In this episode, Michael Topic explains what he and his collaborator tried, and why it was never as simple as building a product. The story…
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Democratised Storytelling - Motivations
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Episode two showed that the technology for a democratised media production tool was emerging; fragile but promising. Now a harder question lingers: why build it at all? Michael Topic returns…
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Democratised Storytelling - Episode 3 Trailer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Stories shape cultures, guide societies and define our shared memory, yet storytelling remains controlled by a few gatekeepers. Democratised Storytelling asks what happens when technology lets...
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Democratised Storytelling - Origins of a New Idea
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In every age, humanity has searched for ways to share its stories: firelight and painted walls, the printed page, and now pixels and photons stitched into moving images. Michael Topic returns…
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Democratised Storytelling - The Background
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A generation ago, a fever dream took hold: a vision of tools for storytellers, built to liberate creators rather than constrain them, and to free their work from the gatekeepers who have long...
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Democratised Storytelling Series Trailer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! A generation ago, Michael Topic dreamed of tools that would let anyone share their story without gatekeepers. He wanted creators paid fairly. He stumbled on a blueprint for…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Storytellers change the world, but the channels they depend on are owned by a handful of billionaires who decide which stories get told and which don't. This series is about changing that for good, and with it, what it's like to live in that world.
It starts in Hollywood, where Michael Topic watched gifted editors and crew work in precarious conditions, while the rewards flowed elsewhere. Around the turn of the century, he and a small team set out to fix it with NeoPixSys: freelance collaboration, built-in rights protection, direct-to-audience distribution, and Mediex, a money issued for value created, not debt. It never shipped. The patents stalled. The world wasn't ready.
Twenty-five years on, the idea looks bigger than video. What if there were a technical architecture that preserved human agency, dignity, meaning and joy, instead of squeezing every last drop of profit from the people the network is meant to serve?
We've all watched enshittification play out: cu
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Michael Topic
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Storytellers change the world, but the channels they depend on are owned by a handful of billionaires who decide which stories get told and which don't. This series is about changing that for good, and with it, what it's like to live in that world. It starts in Hollywood, where Michael Topic...
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