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Will Movies Move to the Cloud?

The idea of cloud computing these days is, of course, hardly radical. But noted film maker Tiffany Shlain has a notion of what she calls “cloud filmmaking” that is considerably different than what people typically mean when they say “cloud.” For her, making movies in the cloud means curating the self-made content (usually selfies) of others to produce her own work. But isn’t that crowd-sourced movie making? Not according to Shlain. “I don’t like the idea of crowd sourcing…. I get nervous in crowds.” Shlain told “Digital Vertigo” author Andrew Keen at a recent Ericsson and AT&T hosted FutureCast event to launch her latest short movie, “The Science of Character.”

By Andrew Keen

May 9, 2014

But isn’t that crowd-sourced movie making?

Not according to Shlain. “I don’t like the idea of crowd sourcing…. I get nervous in crowds.” Shlain told me at a recent Ericsson and AT&T hosted FutureCast event to launch her latest short movie, “The Science of Character.”

So Shlain invented the idea of “cloud films.” “I just love that word cloud filmmaking,” she told the FutureCast audience. “Clouds to me are so magnificent and they’re so much about the potential of creativity.”

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By Andrew Keen

Author, "The Internet Is Not the Answer", Digital Vertigo

Andrew Keen is one of the world’s best known and most controversial commentators on the digital revolution.

He is the author of three books: “Cult of the Amateur,” “Digital Vertigo,” and his current international hit “The Internet Is Not The Answer,” which the London Sunday Times acclaimed as a “powerful, frightening read,” and the Washington Post called “an enormously useful primer for those of us concerned that online life isn’t as shiny as our digital avatars would like us to believe.”

He is executive director of the Silicon Valley innovation salon FutureCast, the host of the popular Internet chat show “Keen On,” a Senior Fellow at CALinnovates, a columnist for CNN, and a much acclaimed public speaker around the world. In 2015, he was named by GQ magazine in their list of the 100 Most Connected Men.