Remember the early 00s the idea of the web was a community garden? Spaceship Earth 1994 -2006 by Jeremy Irons clearly illustrated the 'new communication tool among us' and it's Global Neighborhood interactive exhibits. Now it's all comic book crap as if somebody or an AI has decided that's all allowed to be discussed. The mic has been shut down and thrown away!
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Excellent taste IMO, from the narration to the use of Bach's Sinfonia No. 2 in C Minor.
I think the great promise of the Internet was that it would fundamentally alter mass communication from being primarily a one-way flow from powerful content creators to information consumers into a more democratized landscape on a worldwide scale.
Instead we have devices that are designed primarily for consumption. Sites like Reddit are mostly just a peanut gallery discussing "news" handed down from old media. Sites use algorithms to push the content they want to push. At scale it's absolutely the "flood of electronic babble."
Just like he said in the ride the 'Electronic Babble' issue. Which song is the Bach's song? The main theme when the 'AT&T' announcement occurs?
The score is actually based on that sinfonia, the influence of which can be most easily heard at 3:45 with the renaissance music and particularly at 13:40 with the main theme if you look up the soundtrack.