This article suggests the possibility of speeding up the “time” of video content…so that one could “consume” more content than before in the same amount of time. This could be especially useful for certain types of video that “wandered around” and had “slow spots” in between “rich content moments”.

Essentially this is FF, afaik, but done in such a way as to retain a much more readily viewed and understood visual experience. It’s already possible to do this with audio files…and they can be made to sound almost normal even though it’s not normal time that is passing. So, this would be the same for video.

There’s a limit to how “fast” we can learn, one supposes, and “pace” would likely vary in appropriateness according to the material… but this could be quite useful. Kudos to Gary for the link.

Applied research into two key areas of “folding time” has been conducted over the past seven years at a number of European research labs, universities, and think tanks. This research focused on both the speed of content delivery and the prioritization of delivered content.

 

Research revealed it’s possible to speed up delivery of streamed meeting content — from lectures to all-hands meetings — without a perceived loss of content.

 

Researchers then considered whether accelerated content delivery impacts overall fact retention. Initial assessment showed little impact.

 

The article also mentions attempts to separate content according to “type” of conversation, or “theme” of conversation using algorithms. In other words, if there were two main themes in a video, could they be separated into two different videos, and archived accordingly. That would be great to have too.