red spots, all over.

"Television tells us everyday that we live in a world that we don’t understand, and yet in the main it does little to explain that world. It tells us of new products that make the products we have either old fashioned or obsolete. Above all, if today we are aware of how fast the world around us is changing, it’s because television acts as a relentless reminder of that fact.
Planned obsolescence – the reason you buy a new model because they don’t make last year’s anymore – affects the way we get our information, too. I mean, take a look at the newspapers and the tv programs of twenty years ago and you can see how much more slick, more brief, is today’s treatment of the world we see. Communications technology has made it possible for us to see very much more, but we still only have the same amount of time to see it in. So does that fact accelerate change, the fact that we can be more quickly saturated by an idea or a product or an event? Does this cycle that goes interest in something, involvement in it, tiring of it, and looking for something else get shorter every decade? That shouldn’t surprise you, over 90% of the technologists and scientists and advertisers and salesman that have ever lived are alive now. And they’ve all got a job to do, haven’t they?"

James Burke, Connections: Ep. 9 “Countdown” 1978 (via theadamglass)

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