From our brother Sean:
"Here's a similar one, claiming to be from 1969. The sexism certainly seems to be authentic..."
1969 Promo Clip on the coming Internet
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Wow. What a find! The creepy voiceover and bizarre sexist conception of technology implementation in this presentation gives it even more of a Twilight Zone vibe.
What's so fascinating is that this 1969 film cannot grasp the transformative possibilities of the internet as a many-to-many communications platform, it merely presents it as an automated version of existing one-way commercial services... really an uninspired capitalist outlook with frozen social relations (note how the kids are monitored on camera but not allowed anywhere near the computers!).
Thursday, January 29, 2009
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