Watching a Twitch stream for the first time and it feels like the product of a society whose time-preference has been erased. The real-time chat scrolling like a slot machine, the dopamine hit you get from waiting for something 'exciting' to happen - it's a casino experience, but for all the wrong reasons.

The only redeeming quality I can see is the lack of script, giving us an authentic experience that you cannot get elsewhere. But how long will that last? People are already starting to codify it....

'Live' definitely has value but I cannot help but think that what is on Twitch today will be another one of those things people look back on in 100 years and wonder: what was society thinking?