Regicide is Painless: Killing the idea that content is king

“sharing economy,” where people don’t trade money in a typical transaction but instead give their time to create or share something with a community (e.g. Wikipedia, which was mentioned a dozen times in the morning sessions alone). One sessions later, author Douglas Rushkoff, in a speech entitled “Whose Story is This, Anyway? When Readers Become Writers,” doing his own bit to kill the idea of content being king, said that “contact is king.” Rushkoff’s idea is that the main point of content is to offer people the opportunity to socialize.