Culture Editor, Lonic
Noor writes about culture and technology, focusing on how synthetic media changes what audiences trust.
The South African school produced remarkable individual outcomes and never resolved the question its critics raised on day one. Both parts of that record deserve a hearing.
Anticipation is enormous and the economics are less forgiving than they were five years ago. What the numbers around this release actually tell us about the genre.
The chart still shapes careers, but the formula behind it has changed more in ten years than in the previous fifty. Understanding the inputs explains most chart controversies.
When anything can be generated, audiences start paying for proof. Provenance is becoming a cultural value, not just a technical standard.