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...People criticized him for paying too much for TV and setting a new market value. But since then, the market has exploded and Robert's been shown to be quite prescient," adds Medenica, a close friend...
...only source material he needed for The Truman Show was his own paranoia. "I often felt people were lying to me," he declares. But as the '90s devolved into media spectacles of Bronco chases, freeway suicides and Jerry Springer grudge matches, the conceit of TV as worldwide psychodrama seemed prescient. "I used to think the idea was ludicrously farfetched," Niccol says, "but now I have to wonder...
...invidious prejudices, for which we rightly condemn them. But as we condemn the most noxious forms of prejudice, we blithely overlook subtler forms of prejudice for the very reason that we all share them. And we all share them because they do in fact appear as conventional wisdom. The prescient Tocqueville called it the omnipotence of the majority...
More than a third of a century ago, before anyone had ever heard of videotapes or the World Wide Web or 24-hour TV news stations, Daniel Boorstin, in his uncannily prescient book The Image, described how, as we move deeper into what he called the Graphic Revolution, technology would threaten to diminish us. Ideas, even ideals, would be reduced to the level of images, he argued, and faith itself might be simplified into credulity. "Two centuries ago, when a great man appeared," the historian wrote, "people looked for God's purpose in him; today we look for his press...
...final quarter of 1997. It brings the year's total to $907 million, up a hefty 240 percent from the previous year. But is it believable? Even Peter Storck, head analyst for online advertising at Jupiter Communications -- whose own prediction last June of $940 million was amazingly prescient -- is skeptical. "Don't forget that the IAB's mission is to promote online advertising," he points out. "The reporting members have a stake in making online advertising look like it's growing fast...