An article about TikTok, Twitch and Zoom from 1972 https://www.radicalsoftware.org/volume1nr5/pdf/VOLUME1NR5_art15.pdf …
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"With no market in sight, we are at last being forced into using a high tech communications tool as a real aid in extending our capabilities of relating to our fellow man and even in better understanding our own complex selves"
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"Could be also that most of these people share a feeling that there isa certain beauty in life which' is a lot more interesting and honest as information than the inane, if not complete life-negating entertainment and "news" which the networks see fit to sell to their audiences."
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On the power of portable video: "people actually begin talking to you! (which doesn't always occur so easily if you happen to look a little wierd to them)...
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...They also start talking to each other and in their amusement with seeing themselves and their friends on tv, they begin to develop a consciousness that what they have to say does mean something to someone besides themselves."
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On what makes a good short personal video: "So all we ask is that a tape be interesting, informative, and entertaining, and that it show us as closely as one mind can see, just what really happened. Take us on a journey, but don't bore us...
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That we can do ourselves by flipping to another channel... Natural tv, however, comes from your own heartfelt experience, and that I would hope, is a world of soulful sensitivity, notof sensationalism as we are led to believe by the media minded marketeers of the 6 o'clock news."
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"we imagine a system as functional as the telephone, carrying its audio-visual messages of experience (time, life, space) truly relevant to our survival on this planet"
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"Get in touch with each other!"
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Let's get closer in touch, Jimmy :D If there room on your Giant Peachoid?
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