the pursuit of resolution
Every industry’s most disruptive innovation has shared one hidden theme: collapsing the distance between event and resolution.
Media
Hollywood once lived on lag. A blockbuster would run in theaters, then six months later, appear on DVD. Revenue dripped in by phase. Today? Studios launch simultaneous cinema + streaming, or shorten the window to weeks. Resolution of revenue is pulled forward, and the marketing halo doubles as fuel for direct-to-consumer monetization.
Music
Albums used to mean years of touring → CDs → royalties. Now? A Spotify drop monetizes globally in seconds. Artists don’t wait for radio or physical distribution; resolution is instant, scaled, and temporal.
Gaming
Cartridges and discs were once a multi-year cycle. Now the industry lives on instant digital release + patches + DLC. Monetization is continuous, resolution perpetual. The game isn’t a product anymore; it’s a living system tuned in real-time.
Transport
Taxis lived on scarcity and waiting. Uber compressed the whole chain — discovery, ride, and payment — into a single tap. Resolution became on-demand.
Retail
Brick-and-mortar was deferred resolution: inventory risk, seasonal foot traffic, clearance cycles. Amazon collapsed it into one-click order + same-day delivery. Resolution became temporal.
Finance
Capital markets are still clinging to lag. Discounted cash flows, quarterly earnings, IPO lockups — everything assumes waiting. Value must be discounted back from the future.
But temporal authorship breaks that logic. Just as Netflix pulled the movie calendar into the present, or Spotify compressed distribution into an instant global stream, temporal finance authors time itself:
Collapses resolution from hours to minutes.
Pulls years of valuation forward into now.
Makes liquidity accelerate on command.
It’s not a metaphor. It’s the same force that has disrupted every other sector — latency collapse — applied to the largest pool of wealth in existence.
The pursuit of resolution is the engine of modern disruption. In markets, the logical endpoint is temporal valuation. And that is the world’s first temporal asset.
The Smoking Gun II is coming.