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We are now 20 minutes into the future
> NEW YORK, June 2—TiVo Inc., a maker of television-recording devices, Monday
> unveiled a TV (Television) audience measuring system that allows it to
> report the second-by-second viewing habits of its subscribers to
> advertisers and network programmers.
>
“TiVo unveils audience measuring [1]”
Max Headroom [2] was (and still is) scarily accurate of its protrayal of the
future, given that the show is over fifteen years old. Network executives had
to-the-second ratings numbers, news was entertainment (although that theme
was also covered in the 1976 film Network [3]) and corpratism was the name of
the game.
And now, we have to-the-second ratings, news is entertainment and corpratism
is the name of the game.
It also seems (as far as the original British version (Max Headroom: 1985
British Version) [4] goes) that it takes place in 2004 …
[1]
http://www.msnbc.com/news/920989.asp?0dm=N17LT
[2]
http://www.scifi.com/headroom/maxguide.html
[3]
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0074958
[4]
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0089568
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