Re: More future just arrived.
- From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 28 Oct 2007 13:50:48 -0400
Martha Adams <mhada@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This morning's Public Radio included a piece about a news program
named "Alex." Alex is a complete computer TV newscaster whose
speech is a little off yet but the basics are all there.
I've never understood the point of "talking heads," human or
artificial. TV news is better than print news in only one way: It
can show what events *look* like, rather than just describing them.
Some news events, such as 9/11, are intensely visual. Most, however,
aren't. And whether they are or aren't, what's the point in watching
someone reading the news, when you can simply read it yourself?
Before the net, news on radio and TV was more up to date than printed
news, but that's no longer the case.
Wonderful; but Public Radio missed a detail: in all that
presentation, they never mentioned *Max Headroom.*
Max Headroom wasn't quite the same thing. He was a real person who
was digitized and placed online, not someone created from nothing.
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