The future of media is non-human audiences

Caitlin Burns
5 min readFeb 25, 2021

It’s time to develop experiences outside of the species. Seal with it.

If there’s anything the 2020 quarantines have taught me is that humans are increasingly stuck in rigid behaviors and rigidly defined media platforms many of us are going through the same user experiences over and over again, day in, day out. (Zoom fatigue anyone?)

Even though these activities are useful, they’re not exactly sustaining our emotional and mental needs effectively — and they have diminishing returns. No one cares about new Facebook when the only…

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Caitlin Burns

Producer, Director, Transmedia OG, and Emerging Media Business Consultant. I’ve worked in Film, TV, Games, Space Tourism and Themed Entertainment.