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...programming mixtures reach us through a variety of pipelines all owned by one of four Great Big Media Companies. These are all exactly alike in their collection of assets, each of them owning broadcast, narrowcast, die-cast, retrocast and cybercast, broadband, narrowband, audio, video, satellite and an upload-and-download phalanx of option-driven interfaces. Each of our Great Big Media Companies has thousands of brands that make us feel all warm and toasty and provide an emotional connection to a past that nobody can actually remember. We love our GBMCs and buy their stocks all the time...
Today we are engulfed by the signal-carrying waves of broadcast radio and TV. Come 2025, we will be engulfed by a "cybersphere" in which billions of "information structures" will drift (invisible but real, like radio waves) bearing the words, sounds and pictures on which our lives depend. That's because the electronic world will have achieved some coherence by 2025. Instead of phone, computer and TV networks side by side, one network will do it all. TVs and phones and computers will all be variations on one theme. Their function will be to tune in these information structures...
...Matthews argued with Dick Gephardt on TV in front of us while prodding us about how his St. Alban's son could sneak past the admissions office and get into Harvard. We became buddies during the bizarre meeting and before finishing our drinks, we were invited to attend a broadcast of the New Hampshire primary the following week...
Initial confusion at the scene led the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) to broadcast a report that an explosion had occurred at the building...
...order to prevent such an attack from happening again, the Stanford system administrators have turned off the function that lists the broadcast, or return, address. On all other Stanford systems, this function is already off, but somehow Hopkins was overlooked, Brumley said...