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Could you summarize the way in which it is "relevant" (and to what)?

• dr_dshiv 7y ago
  It's a story about AI, media monopolies and the dangers of new forms of advertising. Implications include the need for heroic journalism and cyberpunk media channels.
• tudorw 7y ago
  Dystopian media influenced oppressive states, a nation placated with purile entertainment, an underground of those who 'really know' what is going on fighting to restore humanity, watched over by a slightly crazed AI ...
• joezydeco 7y ago
  The movie (not the followup Cinemax TV music/interview show) was a pioneering work of cyberpunk. Gibson's Neuromancer had only been published a year earlier, and some of the tropes in this movie ("I need an operator!") would show up later in The Matrix and other works. The Verge did an interview with the creators: https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/2/8285139/max-headroom-oral-history-80s-cyberpunk-interview https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/2/8285139/max-headroom-oral-...