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Entertainment is a luxury, not a necessity. Movies won't give you a dependable ride to work, and a downloaded song won't feed your family for a week. People will only consume entertainment when they have time, money, and the desire to do so. That desire comes about through any number of variables, but once it's there, you'd better deliver—now. Entertainment must be available to the public when the public wants it, not a minute sooner or a second later. It is this perishability that poses the biggest challenge to the industry. Trends in automobiles or home furnishings—large investments—may ebb and flow over several years. Those industries can follow a linear path in the life of a product, taking more time to create the new version, model, style. Entertainment? Today's hot thing can be cold as a clam tomorrow. The consuming public is fickle, so if you want to take advantage of their interest, you need to mobilize all your forces immediately.

mass consumability

temporal sensitivity

technical dependency

unlimited availability

presumed certainty

밑줄 친 “perishability”(쉽게 소멸하는 성질)와 가장 가까운 말은 “temporal sensitivity”(시간에 민감함)이다.
“available to the public when the public wants it, not a minute sooner or a second later”와 “Today's hot thing can be cold as a clam tomorrow”가 근거다. 오락은 때를 놓치면 금세 가치를 잃는다는 뜻이다.
“mass consumability”(대량 소비성): 소비 규모가 아니라 시기가 문제라는 지문의 논점과 다르다.
“technical dependency”(기술 의존성): 기술에 관한 언급은 없다.
“unlimited availability”(무제한 이용 가능성): 원할 때 곧바로 제공해야 한다는 뜻이지 무제한 제공을 말하지 않는다.
“presumed certainty”(추정된 확실성): 대중은 “fickle”(변덕스러운)하다고 했으므로 반대되는 뜻이다.