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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
The Max Effect . . .
io9 has an article by Annalee Newitz, "How Max Headroom predicted my job, 20 years before it existed". It seems that Max was rather prescient about The Shape of Things to Come, or even Things to Come. According to Annalee,
Max Headroom predicted instant-ratings media
Max Headroom predicted how big networks would rip off YouTube celebrities
Max Headroom predicted 4Chan, pirate video, and media hacking
Max Headroom predicted ad-driven news and violent reality TV
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