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- From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: One quick question
- Message-ID: <8891.24507@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 00:03:13 GMT
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- > The brumby should be following this up from zikzak
-
- Hmm, that wouldn't be related to the ZikZak corporation on Max
- Headroom, would it? Since we're on the topic... ;-)
- >
- >>Of course, i'd be afraid to actually *see* any of these shows now, five
- >>years later... i have a suspicion they might not age well....
- >
- > "Five years ago? They showed here just before I got married, three years
- >ago. Of course given the usual behaviour of TV purchasing departments here
- >it's surprising that it showed up at all."
-
- Equally surprising that it ever was allowed on network TV at
- all, since the media culture and those selfsame mavens of
- network norms are what gets skewered, most the time. And
- believe me, my father worked in TV---it's not far off reality!
-
- As far as aging well---um, yes, it really IS twenty minutes
- into the future, and the present is looking more like a Max
- Headroom plot all the time. Every time I watch it, I get a
- little weirded out, because it's all seeming a little too
- close to being reality. Especially when reality is getting
- far too close to a cyberpunk nightmare, as time goes on,
- anyway. Every time I turn on network TV, Max Headroom comes
- back... The technology is only about five minutes into the
- future, now, and I suppose that soon Max and Edison and their
- lot will still be topical, but their network will be sort of
- like an old newspaper office, using elder technology while the
- rest of the world moves on. That, however, can be picturesque in
- itself, like a detective novel sort of thing...
-
- By the way, has anyone noticed how all the cyberpunk universes
- seem to be converging, and starting to be the *same* cyberpunk
- universe? And how close reality is obligingly following suit?
-
- --
- Jilara [jane@swdc.stratus.com]
-
- "Every now and then, a big rock falls out of the sky, and everyone has
- a *very bad* day." --from the PBS "Dinosaurs" special.
-