Would you allow giant corporations to run a pipeline into your brain?
All of the technological optimism that the early television movement was fraught with has been entirely overcome by the inevitable implications of the one-to-many broadcast model. This was not seen at first because the model that television was compared to was that of radio, a medium which required imagination in its audience. In fact, radio eventually succumbed to centralization by giant corporate conglomerates as it would have even in the absence of television.
All of the technological optimism that the early television movement was fraught with has been entirely overcome by the inevitable implications of the one-to-many broadcast model. This was not seen at first because the model that television was compared to was that of radio, a medium which required imagination in its audience. In fact, radio eventually succumbed to centralization by giant corporate conglomerates as it would have even in the absence of television.
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