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Definitely, but it also addressed something I'm trying to tease-out here. For people who had never really used computers, and had not been online, the buzz abo
by Agamus 4y ago
Definitely, but it also addressed something I'm trying to tease-out here.
For people who had never really used computers, and had not been online, the buzz about how the Information Superhighway was going to change everyone's life was enigmatic at best.
This led to all manner of fantasy, and a yearning to make the connection and discover what was going to happen - to be a part of it, to converge - with, or without, a good technical understanding. There's something of this irony in Zombocom.
There's a great 80's Neue Deuetsche Welle song by Paso Doble with which I am practically obsessed, which captures some of the very weird fantastical dream-con-fusion of human and machine, love and logic, flesh and silicon. For the non-tech artists, it was (is?) a rich place to play:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l5Pyg_pSYw&list=PLHgJlrCztlf44CCVNodSDKSgv5s12ZmEm&index=83 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l5Pyg_pSYw&list=PLHgJlrCztl...
"The modules are going crazy -- Man, I'm totally in love"