Why a famous quote from 50 years ago helps explain everything going on in Hollywood right now

• Andy Warhol is credited with saying that in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
• From TV to music, the forces that democratized fame are challenging old economic models. 
• Old giants are struggling to survive in this new era. 

“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”

This quote, which likely originated in a 1968 brochure for an Andy Warhol exhibition, came decades before the rise of reality TV, vlogging, or the first social networks. Yet in predicting not just the ability for anyone to gain notoriety, but also the fleeting nature of that fame, I’d argue it nailed one of the defining cultural elements of our time.