The world is not ours anymore - Minecon Earth 2017

Last month, I was with mine 9 years old son, to a local Minecraft event where the Minecon conference was screened followed by a panel of young Minecraft youtubers.

At the beginning I was not so eager to go to another of those gaming events for kids, full of chaos,  screaming, but this time it was different.

It was an epiphany, I suddenly realized the fundamental gap there is between the digital natives and the representatives of my generation X and to some extent to the Millennials(Generation Y).

Their heroes are young youtubers between 14 a 16 years. They are the stars of this generation. To some extent, it is much democratic and easy to access to stardom nowadays then when we were young. You make some cool movies, publish and promote them on youtube. And then hope for "Likes" and "Subscriptions", the measures of your success.

At the end of the screening, there were presentations by the members of the panel. One of them, was about setting up a Minecraft server, hiring developers, promoting and marketing of the server. Strategies on how retain as long as possible the online players. Full of good common sense without the professional bullshit. This by a 16 years old kid. It was amazing.