On: Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video]

[willhinsa]

I think Bowie's prediction for the impact of the internet was not too far off the mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaHcOs7mhfU

[revolvingocelot → willhinsa]

The parent comment is 6 minutes, but the full 15 minute interview (about more the the internet) is worth it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLf6KZmJyrA

[solomonb → revolvingocelot]

Has Jeremy Paxman since then reflected on this discussion publicly?

[revolvingocelot → solomonb]

No idea, sorry.

[drexlspivey → willhinsa]

Also check out Arthur C Clarke (author of the 2001 Space Odyssey) predicting internet connected personal computers and remote work in 1974

https://youtu.be/OIRZebE8O84

[blast → willhinsa]

Two years earlier, he dismissed it as "just a tool like a typewriter": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmxOq9STmQM, so it's interesting how he evolved. He does already say that he liked immediate feedback from comments about the show the night before, so the point about the audience was already there.

This is consistent with Bowie's genius to be more an early adopter type than a visionary type. A hell of an early adopter.

[paul7986 → willhinsa]

Napster came into existence in '99