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Eric F Coppolino's avatar

I contemplate ongoing what temperature the internet is. It is usually high definition in multiple senses at once. TV the 50s and 60s was a cool medium due to the scan lines and shitty speaker on the side of the box (to which my dad taped a microphone to record the news doing his Ph.D. work at NYU). In U.M. I recall Marshall saying that "high definition TV would be a whole other thing." The internet is loaded with high def video combined with high def audio. Plus you touch the thing, and talk to it. So how would you start to work out this question, or are we beyond the hot/cool binary in addressing total digital conditions?

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I propose that digital is balls the wall HOT. You need to bring literally nothing but your charged up device and you're all set. You've got the whole world in your hands. A total moron is instantaneously a genius. It provides everything. One touch and a pizza shows up at your door.

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