Saturday, January 17, 2009

O Brave New World

"Our world is not the same as Othello's world. You can't make flivvers without steel-and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get."
-Mustapha Mond, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

"O brave new world," he repeated. "O brave new world that has such people in it. Let's start at once."
John quoting Shakespeare's The Tempest, Brave New World

This is a link to a distopian vision of the coming media war and death of the fourth estate. Beaming live from the Museum of Media History, it takes a look back from 2014 on the media war that transpires. Big thanks to Mrs. Amron, who sent this to me some 5 years ago, and was kind enough to dig it out of her email garbage box all these years later.

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