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I think the following (quote from the article) is a very good observation: "I suspect — and I don’t think this is nostalgia — but it may have been able to beco
by rolux 14y ago
I think the following (quote from the article) is a very good observation:
"I suspect — and I don’t think this is nostalgia — but it may have been able to become kind of a richer sauce, initially. It wasn’t able to instantly go from London to Toronto at the speed of light. Somebody had to carry it back to Toronto or wherever, in their backpack and show it, physically show it to another human. Which is what happened. And compared to the way that news of something new spreads today, it was totally stone age. Totally stone age! There’s something remarkable about it that’s probably not going to be that evident to people looking at it in the future. That the 1977 experience was qualitatively different, in a way, than the 2007 experience, say.
- gaius 14y agoOn Amazon now, I have learnt not to buy a Kindle book that doesn't also come on paper, because that is the quality filter, than the author managed to get a publishing deal. I don't think that signal will be around for much longer. It's the same thing as Gibson says, a thing had to have a certain momentum behind it to make it into the outside world, that is missing now.