Creators, Communities, and the Gray Space in the Middle — Nichanan Kesonpat

How David Bowie presciently described the breakdown of barriers between creators and their audiences, the future of digital communities, and experiments in NFTs and social tokens.

Interviewer: “it’s just a tool though isn’t it?” David Bowie: “ No, no, it’s an alien life form ” That was Bowie in 1999 presciently describing what the internet was going to mean for the music industry. Specifically, how it was going to change the relationship between artists and their audiences. At the time, he saw that humanity was on the cusp of something both exhilarating and terrifying: it was a breakdown of the barriers between creators and their communities. Instead of a piece of art or information being broadcasted one-way to an audience, it was becoming more of a dialogue, where the

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