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  • 2022-11-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Did David Bowie Say This in 1999 About the Internet? (en)
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  • David Bowie: Cultural icon, music legend, and — clairvoyant? Bowie gave a famous interview on BBC Newsnight in 1999, and made some remarks about the internet, which was at that time a burgeoning technology. His remarks seemed to predict some of the social fragmentation and chaos catalyzed by the internet in the 2010s and early 2020s: At the time, Bowie told BBC interviewer Jeremy Paxman that the internet seemed subversive to him, because society's wielders of power and influence didn't yet have a monopoly over it. The above quote from Bowie is real, but in January 2022, a parody of this interview went viral in which comedian Michael Spicer embellished Bowie's 1999 comments with a hindsight-is-20/20 spiel about the state of technology and its deleterious effects on society and people's personal time management: In the future, we'll be wasting hours and hours of our lives just watching videos of cats and dogs being adorable, Spicer said, before he launched into a critique of how far-right political figures exploited immigration to drum up anti-immigrant sentiment as a vector to assume power. (en)
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