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Engelbart also thought we would get somewhere alien. He underestimated the power of the mainstream.
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Did he bank on it in any way? I've never noticed Bowie doing anything particular social media, youtube exclusive, pay what you want or other similar new media age kind of things. As far as I know, he did news paper and TV intervews, released albums, played live shows and acted in movies. Doesn't seem very "social broadcast media" to me.
Bank on it... in a way, yes. He sold the rights to his albums. People gave him ready money in exchange for the future income from his albums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_bond
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Did he bank on it in any way? I've never noticed Bowie doing anything particular social media, youtube exclusive, pay what you want or other similar new media age kind of things. As far as I know, he did news paper and TV intervews, released albums, played live shows and acted in movies. Doesn't seem very "social broadcast media" to me.
I read yesterday he started his own ISP (BowieNet I think).
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I very much doubt that he thought the Internet was invented by Gore in 1997. Expand your time scale to the level of the point he's making, and yes it did just arrive.
I was not faulting him for possibly not knowing the full history of the internet. Pre-1997, the internet and the web were both very confidential. It started to become a thing in the public mind around that time, and seeing it, in 2000 (apparently the proper date of the interview) as an alien life form is very insightful.