konterkariert / trends

A documentary based on the book Future Shock by futurist Alvin Toffler.

This movie came out in 1972 and features Orson Welles as the narrator.

“It was on an October night, in Paris. We went to a pub, made some noise outside with a German band. Kele, Bloc Party’s singer, went out. We asked him to sing. He said no. We asked again, he said ‘yes but’. Then, we asked again..”

My transcription of the Eric Schmidt talk.

Eric Schmidt speaks at the Newspaper Association of America on April 7, 2009 in San Diego about real time content and mood mapping and twitter.

beginning at minute 31

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orAJ-YD9FhA&fmt=18

(…) Right there in the local context. (…) When we are at movie theaters, we are all tweeting or twittering to each other. (…) This is going to happen. Because of this notion in being in a shared community. (…) Why don’t we have mood mapping? (…) Everybody sort of tweets… well I don’t like it, or I do like it. (…) We could do it in real time! This is the year, when real time gets added to the equation that we are all dealing with now. It’s now all becoming real time. It is that sum, that defines both the problem and the opportunity, that all of us see. (…) and real time content (…) From our perspective, we need those voices.

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