Broadcast » Technology http://broadcast.palefire.com The Pale Fire Archives Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:13:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet http://broadcast.palefire.com/2010/01/how-to-stop-worrying-and-learn-to-love-the-internet/ http://broadcast.palefire.com/2010/01/how-to-stop-worrying-and-learn-to-love-the-internet/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:28:47 +0000 Andrew http://broadcast.palefire.com/?p=182 Timelessness is as good a means to judge the importance and value of writing as any other and this article on how we lost (and now have rediscovered) interactivity by Douglas Adams, written in 1999 but still as relevant and enjoyable to read today is a perfect example. I’ve been misquoting a passage from this for years and so I’m pleased to be re-aquainted with the source (thanks to Aden Davies).

…during this century we have for the first time been dominated by non–interactive forms of entertainment: cinema, radio, recorded music and television. Before they came along all entertainment was interactive: theatre, music, sport – the performers and audience were there together, and even a respectfully silent audience exerted a powerful shaping presence on the unfolding of whatever drama they were there for.

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