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William Gibson on The Age of The Remix

Posted by Zonk on from the re-re-mixing dept.

wordisms writes "William Gibson of Neuromancer fame gives his thoughts on remix and innovation in the digital age, in a short essay at Wired Magazine entitled God's Little Toys. From the article: 'Our culture no longer bothers to use words like appropriation or borrowing to describe those very activities. Today's audience isn't listening at all - it's participating. Indeed, audience is as antique a term as record, the one archaically passive, the other archaically physical. The record, not the remix, is the anomaly today. The remix is the very nature of the digital.'"

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  1. what? by sound+vision · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Am I the only one who had no idea what that the summary means... at all?

  2. Gibson didn't invent the remix.... by The+Lynxpro · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ....because we all know that Puff Daddy did... :)

    Well, at least that's what Puff Daddy/P. Diddy/Sean John/Sean "Puffy" Combs or whatever the tool calls himself today claims.

    Even worse, McDonald's is going to pay him money to redesign the McDonald's employee uniforms. If you too are dismayed at the "family friendly" McDonald's paying money to a thug wanna-be to make their clothing hip, please contact McDonald's Corporate and complain.

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  3. Re:Historical Record by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The world is not so small as it is round. I read _Neuromancer_ in Summer 1987, when a friend lent me his copy. And I registered this user ID with Slashdot only 22280 people after you. Tell me, how's your Summer going this year? I'm curious about mine next year :).

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