"How Robber Barons hijacked the "Victorian Internet"
Ars revisits those wild and crazy days when Jay Gould ruled the telegraph and Associated Press reporters helped fix presidential elections. Is government supervision really the worst thing that can happen to a communications network?"
"Where once morality and meaning were available as part of our free
cultural inheritance, now corporations sell them to us as products."
"This is basically the commercial exploitation of spirituality," he
says, adding that as a result Disney and other corporations "inhabit
our imagination".
"Once planted there they can make us endlessly greedy. And that is
exactly what they are doing."
"Where once morality and meaning were available as part of our free cultural inheritance, now corporations sell them to us as products."
"This is basically the commercial exploitation of spirituality," he says, adding that as a result Disney and other corporations "inhabit our imagination".
A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer.
"...ACCORDING TO ITS PRODUCER." Is this a realistic scenario? Perhaps an attempt to provoke offers or start a bidding war for US distribution rights for this film?