The Age of Livestreaming: 30 Stories Of How The Livestream Economy is Revolutionizing The Way The World Does Business

INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS THE LIVESTREAM ECONOMY?

The feelings and meanings conveyed by text are incomplete(…) Text is an indirect form of speech and a rather imperfect tool. When the telephone and radio came about, they had a huge impact on the place of letters and notices in people’s lives. And when fax technology developed, there arose the issue of whether text should still be used.

Since face-to-face contact is a direct form of interaction, why should we use text in place of this relatively more complete form of language?

In a “face-to-face community,” even language itself becomes a tool that is only used due to a lack of alternatives.

—FEI XIAOTONG (FROM THE SOIL, 1947)

The most important understanding we have derived over the past few years ...